Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 3 | Such an invitation should give an indication of what pictures could be taken or which parts of the event lend themselves to photographs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The problems of financing and supplying expeditions to the continent provoked political opposition which had a wide popular basis and in which some of the nobility allied themselves with the commons in seeking redress for the grievances of the community . |
| 6 | This provides the timetable for the meeting and allows members of the committee to prepare themselves in advance for the discussions that will take place . |
| 7 | Later , in the sixteenth century , some of the bastides allied themselves with the Huguenot cause against the Catholics , and there was more bloodshed . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The last eleven chapters of the treatise address themselves to the nature of the discretion appropriate to mixed life . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of the sample describe themselves as head of their households . |
| 11 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 12 | The rest of the company ranged themselves around the long , cold room , their backs to the wall , their eyes on the man opposite , their faces utterly inexpressive . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Briefly , if a church , for example , wanted to raise money , the ladies of the congregation organised themselves into small groups , often into pairs , and each group distributed invitations to perhaps a dozen or fourteen friends to a tea to be held in the church hall or some other suitable place . |
| 16 | Last week six of the nuns locked themselves in a hen house and refused access to a ministry vet who was to supervise the slaughter of the hens by 10 ex-aminers . |
| 17 | Follow this with one or two closer shots which show the family against this background : the adults might be sunning themselves while the younger members of the family amuse themselves in more active ways — paddling , or playing beach football . |
| 18 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Outside they could hear the rest of the pack throwing themselves against the timber of the gate and the outer wall . |
| 21 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 22 | How do the properties of the chain manifest themselves in the bulk ? |
| 23 | But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners . |
| 24 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The second relates to the skill of the workers offering themselves for employment . |
| 27 | This refusal of the activists to reconcile themselves to war testifies to their sincerity , not their naivety . |
| 28 | A poll commissioned by the EEC in 1977 showed that 82 per cent of the population declared themselves to be broadly satisfied with living in Britain , compared with 68 per cent in France and 59 per cent in Italy . |
| 29 | Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind . |
| 30 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |