Example sentences of "[vb past] itself to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 2 | In the mid-fifties UNRWA committed itself to two major development schemes which offered the prospect of resettling between 200,000 and 300,000 refugees . |
| 3 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 4 | But I mean er that one lent itself to that . |
| 5 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 6 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 7 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 8 | The basic design lent itself to production-line techniques , and ERCO produced 335 per month at their peak . |
| 9 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 10 | He possessed a cheery self-confidence , which communicated itself to those around him . |
| 11 | The committee addressed itself to two main interlocking problems : the central issue of the relationship between the individual local authorities and the polytechnics and other colleges , and the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements by which advanced courses were financed . |
| 12 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 13 | The committee addressed itself to three issues : the absolute price-level of CDs ; the price difference between CDs and cassettes ; and the price difference between CDs in America and Britain . |
| 14 | The financial stringencies which accompany marriage and child-rearing caused this interest to be set aside , and once it had gone , the cultural tradition asserted itself to remarkable effect . |
| 15 | Usually this did n't matter because the Parquet confined itself to criminal offences and there was no religious dimension involved . |
| 16 | Any account of political conflict , however , which confined itself to these limiting cases of rational persuasion on one side and the use of physical force on the other , would be seriously incomplete . |
| 17 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 18 | As to ( b ) , the rule that if A 's goods are feloniously taken by B , A may follow them onto C's land rests upon a passage in Blackstone which commended itself to two of the judges in Anthony v. Haney . |
| 19 | In these ‘ frenzied uprisings ’ ‘ the peasant consciousness suddenly broke loose from its moorings , fell prey to ancient deliriums , and abandoned itself to all its demons . |