Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] itself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ignominious collapse of the grand scheme the two separated , each to accommodate itself to the developing capitalist system , each to find its own way forward within the system and as part of it . |
| 2 | MORAL panic is one of the more enduring items on the domestic cultural menu and in a month of fatal stabbings , horrific child murder and economic gloom , society seems once again all too willing to frighten itself to death . |
| 3 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 4 | In plain language it meant that there could be no public loan unless the British Government was prepared to commit itself to severe retrenchment , including a cut of ten per cent in unemployment benefits . |
| 5 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 6 | Significantly , though Hegel himself was much interested in science , especially in astronomy , his own efforts in that direction were none too successful : physical reality tended to be uncomfortably unwilling to accommodate itself to his theoretical predictions . |
| 7 | Such an idea is unlikely to commend itself to Israel ( for strategic reasons ) , or Lebanon , Syria or the refugees themselves . |
| 8 | Then there was one from ‘ R. Ufricks District Postmaster ’ informing residents of his area that pillar boxes with two holes in them had been ‘ put to an improper purpose ’ , which he spelled out in a way unlikely to commend itself to the Royal Mail . |
| 9 | SunSoft is apparently reluctant to align itself to closely with the Unix International Roadmap , seen as too closely aligned with USL . |
| 10 | Darts will never be able to lend itself to artistic flair |
| 11 | BP ran into some rough weather in 1992 but the company is too strong and resilient to allow itself to be blown off course by the recent squalls . |
| 12 | ‘ thought it best to confine itself to enunciating the guiding principle that , before the grant of nationality is generally recognised , there must be a genuine link between the ship and the State granting permission to fly its flag |
| 13 | And the political culture is one that provides government with the breathing space necessary to address itself to those problems . |