Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Small Faces could only really produce themselves , a fact made clear by Billy Nicholls ' dire ‘ Would You Believe ’ , and PP Arnold 's ‘ If You Think You 're Groovy ’ , a great song ruined by cack-handed production . |
| 2 | It follows that in our judgment C.N.L. can not successfully bring themselves within the ratio of Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 3 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 4 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 5 | But the ancestral organs did not literally change themselves into the descendant organs , like swords being beaten into ploughshares . |
| 6 | That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity . |
| 7 | At a time when no one else may seem to approve of them , and they may not much like themselves , it is of the utmost importance that teenagers should feel wanted and loved by their parents . |
| 8 | The records management staff could no longer only involve themselves in the review of paper records they should also safeguard electronic records from inappropriate destruction . |
| 9 | All supervising officers , including senior divisional managers — chief superintendents — ‘ should not only hold themselves accountable , but be actively held accountable for the overall level of their subordinates ’ . |
| 10 | And those who do , usually do not only harm themselves . |
| 11 | By contrast , the failure to introduce new benefits , payments or services is a much blunter grievance : political opponents have only something hypothetical to discuss ; individual electors do not easily identify themselves with the deprived . |
| 12 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 13 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 14 | But Coventry do not just see themselves as killjoys . |
| 15 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
| 16 | Once again , the marketing mentality permeates these specialist services for they need to understand marketing principles and concepts even if they do not directly involve themselves in the data and planning . |
| 17 | The directors , in the example given previously , can not retrospectively convert themselves into secured creditors in respect of moneys which they have previously advanced without demanding security . |
| 18 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 19 | Such activity is necessitated by the provision of only 420 km of game-viewing in a reserve of 1673 km 2 and the fact that there are relatively low populations of the carnivores , individuals of which do not always locate themselves in convenient spots ! |
| 20 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 21 | But these critics do not always ask themselves whether any society does not need a degree of unity in order to be a society at all , or how much diversity even a liberal society can tolerate without falling apart . |
| 22 | It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Liverpool 's performance was based more on perspiration than inspiration as Spartak provided confirmation that the Anfield club can no longer automatically regard themselves among the European soccer giants . |
| 24 | Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform . |
| 25 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 26 | In this perspective the centre is much more concrete and material than in the more ideal culture supposed by Banfield , so that problems of geographical distance , cultural isolation and economic marginality can all be recognised ; but the combination of causes cultural lag together with structural factors is not an easy one , since the two levels of causality implied do not immediately present themselves as mutually complementary . |
| 27 | The promises do not readily lend themselves to precise costings . |
| 28 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 29 | Many of these children come from families which do not readily form themselves into associations and pressure groups . |
| 30 | Local GPs and social workers need to know that guaranteed specialist assistance is at hand both day and night and , as distress and despair do not conveniently confine themselves to the hours of nine to five , this means having experienced consultant psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses on call for community work at all times . |