Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports .
2 The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) .
3 The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse .
4 Whether you 've been asked to open the discussion or not , you should prepare yourself for the tutorial as follows :
5 Consequently , they should prepare themselves for the process by shaping the plans for their appointment procedure in some detail .
6 We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries .
7 He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions .
8 He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working .
9 He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State .
10 That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’
11 It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility .
12 Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide .
13 Trade unions should confine themselves to the business of wages and conditions .
14 First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart .
15 He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished .
16 Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) .
17 However , before competing again you must present yourself to the tournament doctor to have both the injury and your bandaging accepted .
18 The article concludes with a declaration that British members of the National Front should identify themselves with the struggle of the Palestinians : ‘ We must draw inspiration from people such as the Palestinians who having lost so much more than us , still continue to fight for national sovereignty , and stubbornly refuse to relinquish their national identity . ’
19 We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion .
20 But Lib Dem Coun Flo Clukas said officers should reconcile themselves to the fact that Option 3 will go ahead and should put plans into place .
21 He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink .
22 In general terms the War Wagon fights like a chariot , and players should familiarise themselves with the chariot rules in the Warhammer rulebook .
23 Where NEWSFLASHes name a member of the department as a contact , the person should familiarise himself with the subject matter and have readily available those to whom reference may be made in order to progress the matter .
24 You should familiarise yourself with the procedure .
25 Nowadays museums must sell themselves on the market in order to attract not only the audiences but also sponsors and benefactors .
26 She must hone herself into the likeness of her beloved stiletto .
27 Enough not because we must content ourselves with the minimum , he wrote , but because there is never more , if more means meaning , wholeness , salvation , redemption , all the rest .
28 His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown .
29 At the end of the nineteen twenties the policy from Moscow , not just to the Chinese Communist Party but actually to communist parties all over the world swings dramatically to the left and Stalin is arguing that there 's , there are going to be revolutionary explosions all over the world the Communist Party must forge its own path , it must put itself at the head of these struggles , it must give a lead to the masses by launching insurrections and so on and so forth .
30 Not wishing to jeopardise businesses , the Committee suggests that directors must satisfy themselves on the basis that they have a reasonable expectation that it will continue in operation for the period specified in the guide-lines .
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