Example sentences of "of [verb] themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 2 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 3 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 4 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 5 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 6 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 7 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 8 | In the seventeenth century army service had sometimes offered to ambitious men of low birth the prospect of raising themselves in the social scale , and perhaps of acquiring nobility for themselves and their descendants . |