Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] itself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | An acquiring company may burden itself with responsibility for pollution , product liability and employers ' liability , where the liability accrued perhaps twenty or thirty years ago , but the claims are only now beginning . |
| 2 | The team should choose itself with Wright in goal , Fleming , Taggart , McDonald and Worthington in defence , a midfield of Donaghy , Wilson , Magilton and Hughes plus the strike pairing of Dowie and Gray . |
| 3 | The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " . |
| 4 | Immediately following on the principle that it must establish an effective intelligence system , he placed the further principle that it must provide itself with a legal system adequate for the needs of the moment . |
| 5 | While this is obviously demanding of professional time and effort , it need not be particularly difficult to achieve , and the investment should repay itself with dividends . |
| 6 | The same opposition of criticism and scholarship and the same demand that criticism should concern itself with specifically literary properties are the inspiration of two of the best-known theoretical products of the New Criticism , the essays on ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ and ‘ The affective fallacy ’ written jointly by Wimsatt and Beardsley and published in the Sewanee Review in 1946 and 1949 respectively ( now in Wimsatt 1958 : 1 — 39 ) . |
| 7 | A new US secretary of defense in 1949 thought Britain was " finished " , and suggested that as her empire began to disintegrate so the United States should concern itself with strengthening the useful parts . |
| 8 | It follows that the planning system should concern itself with ways of improving the process to respond to demand . |
| 9 | A sociology of culture must concern itself with the institutions and formations of cultural production , for this is one of the most distinct of its fields . |
| 10 | Finally , a sociology of culture must concern itself with general and specific problems of cultural organization . |
| 11 | Or a ready-made team may present itself with a management buy-out , buy-in or acquisition . |
| 12 | And Argentina might bankrupt itself with a second invasion . |
| 13 | If each area could provide itself with just the quantity of the good that it requires , these deadweight losses could be avoided . |
| 14 | As a result , a nation could find itself with huge quantities of substances which it does not need — which is precisely the American experience . |
| 15 | Article F(3) states : ‘ The Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies . ’ |
| 16 | The idea was that he would eat the food in the pack while the lurcher dog would provide itself with rabbits and hares along the journey . |
| 17 | It was feared that once Japan was restored to independence , right-wing conservative nationalism would assert itself with at least some of the characteristics of prewar Japan emerging again . |
| 18 | If we had proportional representation , the Conservative party would find itself with rather more influence in a Parliament in Scotland than it has here . |
| 19 | Under the new system , the Little Hural would deal primarily with economic matters and " the supervision of the government " ; the Great Hural would concern itself with the fundamental issues in domestic and foreign policies . |
| 20 | So , henceforth , ‘ urban ’ sociology would concern itself with the provision of such collective facilities . |
| 21 | The Apex conference must come to terms with the nature of that amalgamation and that said that the Apex conference would concern itself with matters of interest to white collar workers . |
| 22 | Perhaps history will repeat itself with the successor to the Community Programme , if the difficulties can be ironed out . |
| 23 | Dr Tipler suggests that it will occupy itself with the resurrection of the dead . |
| 24 | Families , even adults , will play with each other in the water or on land , chasing and staging mock battles , but even a solitary otter will amuse itself with a pebble ! |
| 25 | Power Parallel , on the other hand , will content itself with multi-chip versions of the current RS/6000 chip Rios , Filip said . |
| 26 | The committee will concern itself with matters relating to administration , marketing , finance , playing , development , and public relations . |
| 27 | This chapter will concern itself with two basic approaches to evaluation by outsiders : the measurement of the ‘ products ’ or ‘ outcomes ’ of schooling , for example , through testing programmes ; the independent observation of the processes of schooling by outsiders , for example by inspectors . |
| 28 | At one level , of course , this simply reflects Latin American political realities : these societies are highly fragmented and any governing group will find itself with a diverse power base and the need to sustain its position by means of either coercion or consensus building . |
| 29 | Within a month of an election being called , Britain may find itself with a new government . |
| 30 | Her belief is that to reach a very wide audience one must establish character first so the audience can identify itself with the issue , through the character . |