Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 2 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 4 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 5 | I booked half-board and every night in the ‘ EL PATIO ANDALUZ ’ , we helped ourselves to delicious hot or cold food , washed down with free wine or soft drinks . |
| 6 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 7 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 8 | The advantages and disadvantages of objectives can be examined from several viewpoints but we will confine ourselves to three : the practical , ethical and educational . |
| 9 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 10 | Our first degree of specialisation to make the notion useful is to restrict ourselves to linear operators . |
| 11 | Next we restrict ourselves to harmonic ( optical ) fields E(t) , with angular frequency w : Assuming , for definiteness , that the atom is initially in state 1 , and expressing its subsequent evolution as then standard application of time-dependent perturbation theory gives , to lowest order Clearly the largest excitation will occur in cases where hw is resonant with an atomic energy spacing { maths } . |
| 12 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 13 | In addressing ourselves to this process , we are not speculating . |
| 14 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 15 | As a New York merchant expressed it in 1762 : " Our importation of dry goods from England is so vastly great , that we are obliged to betake ourselves to all possible arts to make remittances to the British merchants . " |
| 16 | We visited the kitchen , were lectured to diet , closed our eyes and expressed ourselves to ethnic music and discussed who we were . |
| 17 | However , there is no particular reason to confine ourselves to constant per unit prices , and we should also consider non linear outlay schedules , in which charges are not strictly proportional to the number of units purchased . |
| 18 | It is always surprising how little we , as individuals , understand of the emotional basis of our own social relationships and behaviour — about the way we present ourselves to other people , about aspects of our personality which others find attractive , and those which are not so attractive . |
| 19 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 20 | We want to address ourselves to concrete problems in today 's world . |
| 21 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 22 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 23 | It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective . |
| 24 | When we do , however , subject ourselves to prolonged exercise , such as jogging , marathon running or mountain climbing , we experience benefits over and above the merely improved function of our hearts and musculature — benefits at the emotional , mental or spiritual levels . |
| 25 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |
| 26 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 27 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery , without human beings in them , and by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see and are now being seen again . |
| 28 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery without human beings in them , and , by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see , and are now being seen again . |
| 29 | ‘ We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child 's mind , which are first awakened by nature , and consequently first admit of cultivation , that is to say , the memory and the imagination . ’ |
| 30 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |