Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to give children the opportunity to express themselves through a variety of approaches including descriptive , imaginative and creative poetry and prose . |
| 2 | These are very popular on the continent and a number of players take advantage of the opportunity to match themselves against the professional to see just how good their game is over 72 holes of stroke play . |
| 3 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 4 | The stout plastic sacks are ripped open by sharp beaks , allowing the birds to help themselves to the contents . |
| 5 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 6 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 7 | A new breed of men had emerged from the vague grey ranks of the judiciary to stamp themselves on the nation 's consciousness : the glamorous investigating magistrates and Public Prosecutors who were to be seen on the news every evening leading the fight against political violence and organized crime . |
| 8 | Even at this stage conciliation is encouraged and the EAT is enabled to take such steps as it thinks fit to enable the parties to avail themselves of the opportunity for conciliation . |
| 9 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 10 | They enlisted the help of a rebellious warlord from Vidin , in Ottoman-occupied Bulgaria , Osman Pazvant-oglu , and the governor was able to maintain his position only by arming the Serbs to defend themselves against the invaders . |
| 11 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 12 | Children could have the right to remove themselves from the at risk register of an 11-year old girl wins her test case in the High Court . |
| 13 | Wales , meaning the suffering Welsh public , desperately needed the comfort of Saturday 's epic encounter before a Stradey Park gathering fit for the occasion to remind themselves of the level of attainment of which their game is still capable . |
| 14 | DEFENSIVE blunders cost Quakers the chance to lift themselves off the bottom of the table . |
| 15 | By exposing the workings of pop ( the way myth is stagemanaged , the way glamour is constructed ) the new pop entryists actually deny the listener the chance to lose themselves in the ‘ commodity fetishism ’ they purport to celebrate . |
| 16 | The opening in time for August Bank Holiday Monday , possibly the busiest day of the year for Darlington shops , would give businesses the chance to establish themselves before the pre-Christmas onslaught in mid October . |
| 17 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 18 | For the first time , he allowed the features to assemble themselves into a face . |
| 19 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 20 | Mrs Foster encouraged the staff to avail themselves of the lodge 's delights . |
| 21 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |
| 22 | It took time for the Americans to commit themselves to a battle for the stomachs , hearts and minds of the people living in the Western zones of Germany . |
| 23 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 24 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 25 | But having collected the first item on Alex Ferguson 's spring shopping list they hope it will prove to be the lever to rid themselves of a 25-year burden . |
| 26 | There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious . |
| 27 | And to give those less fortunate , the ability to lift themselves into the prosperity that is the right of all Germans . ’ |
| 28 | They had woken in the morning , stiff and damp , rushed into the house to warm themselves in the huge old-fashioned bathtub , cooked an enormous breakfast and driven back to the city so Cameron could interview some visiting fireman from Washington . |