Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 2 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 3 | It 's also a perfect place for students to prepare themselves for the new grade-level Trinity College Of Music Pop Exams , since the Guitar School is the new local exam centre ! |
| 4 | In TRACE II units at the same level fight amongst themselves for the available supporting evidence . |
| 5 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 6 | The subscription is quoted at £3 3s. 0d. for Gentlemen and £2 2s. 0d. for Ladies and urges those wanting to join ‘ to do so at once and avail themselves of the present low subscription free of entrance fee ’ . |
| 7 | Commentators initially understood that his proposals and the WPE central committee resolution of March 6 which adopted his report excluded a multiparty system , and required opposition groups to merge themselves into the existing single party framework under its new name . |
| 8 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 9 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One day everyone was laughing and singing in the Delhi gardens , covering each other with pink powder and coloured Holi-water ; the next they had imprisoned themselves in the silent air-conditioned purdah of their bedrooms and offices , waiting patiently for the reprieve of evening . |
| 12 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 13 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 14 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 15 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 16 | Some brightly coloured butterflies , orange and yellow and black and white — his father would have known their names — sunned themselves on the mellow rosy brickwork , spreading their wings flat in the heat . |
| 17 | Immediately , problems present themselves to the fertile legal mind , and the final part of this paper will concentrate on exploring the implications of this submission . |
| 18 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 19 | The coincidence of the bronzewings ' appearance and Gould 's arrival did not escape comment by the local Aborigines , who had , like Natty and Jemmy , attached themselves to the strange English bird-man . |
| 20 | These are designed , rather on the principle of the weathercock , to orientate themselves to the instantaneous local air movement . |
| 21 | Its 24-hour-a-day , satellite-directed tentacles now wrap themselves around the entire Spanish-speaking world from the USA to the southern tip of Argentina and across the Atlantic to Spain in an effort to duplicate the success of the North American Cable News Network in the English-speaking world . |