Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [pn reflx] with the " in BNC.

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1 At the present time the Tribunal may only concern itself with the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants , therefore only the restrictive obligations contained in the agreement .
2 In effect this meant accepting that the sociology of knowledge must not concern itself with the truth of knowledge being studied but analyse the ‘ norms of thinking ’ for the participants under study :
3 It must further concern itself with the ways in which , within social life , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ cultural production ’ are socially identified and distinguished .
4 A sociology of culture must further concern itself with the processes of social and cultural ‘ reproduction ’ .
5 But then a sociology of culture must also concern itself with the social relations of its specific means of production .
6 The amendments agreed in December 1988 duly provided that while the Council of the Union should concentrate upon economic , diplomatic and other matters affecting the USSR as a whole , the Council of Nationalities should particularly concern itself with the interests of all ethnic groups within the framework of the Soviet multinational state .
7 A people may or may not identify itself with the dominant culture .
8 ‘ Moreover , this class or fraction in charge of the state may or may not identify itself with the ruling class or fraction in the political scene ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 335 ) .
9 An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term .
10 Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu .
11 When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn .
12 If Sister does n't get a move on , they could always content themselves with the shortest children 's story ever told .
13 We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies .
14 We need not concern ourselves with the details of Kant 's theory of Transcendental Ideas .
15 A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique .
16 Dustin also found that firing a gun was not something he was adept at , and would often burn himself with the powder from the blank cartridge .
17 No doubt she will also enjoy herself with the best of our manhood . ’
18 Brutus also says that he will also kill himself with the same sword as he killed Caesar with , when the country wishes him to .
19 The resultant pseudo-scientific arguments will then concern themselves with the meaningless question as to whether the fauna of the intervening strata pertain more to the stage below or to the stage above .
20 If so , they can always comfort themselves with the thought that its establishment coincided with the beginnings of imperial decline .
21 Fish , too , can sometimes find themselves with the eggs of another species , as in the case of perch and minnows ( see BBC WILDLIFE , December , p824 ) .
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