Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 2 | He prefers the charcoal drawing to the full garish canvas , and this is why , I think , the songs work so well , because , as we listen , individual responses suggest themselves to a line , or a turn of phrase , which by inference , creates a greater sense of empathy and involvement for the listener . |
| 3 | Children often notice differences in size when they play , when , for instance , they fit themselves under a table or try to crawl through a hoop . |
| 4 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 5 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 7 | But how do rational agents put themselves in a position of being able to anticipate changes in the money stock ? |
| 8 | advice is taking people off , with , in the knowledge that they will not necessarily , er , er , er put themselves in a straight-jacket . |
| 9 | Few of these books , however , have any relevance to teaching undergraduate computer science as they normally restrict themselves to a single language on a single make of computer . |
| 10 | They manufacture a polysaccharide ( sugar ) based mucus covering to disguise their otherwise protein based body structure and they also cover themselves with a thin coating of the anemone 's own mucus . |
| 11 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 12 | Pending the departure of the Birkenhead train they bestow themselves in a waiting room set apart , or roam the platforms . |
| 13 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 14 | The advanced technology of Ticene means that any grease splashes which land on the inside of the oven , spread themselves over a large area and burn away at normal cooking temperatures . |
| 15 | It is therefore essential that managers and DP professionals should , to be more effective , equip themselves with a knowledge and understanding of the products and strategy behind the IBM environment . |
| 16 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 17 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 18 | Single tartan-style cloches certainly lend themselves to a kitchen garden , although they do n't come cheap — prices start at £58 . |
| 19 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 20 | Further even that this , although it is not possible for knitters to write their own programs for Form , there are programs that lend themselves to a great deal of adaptation and change that can be used to knit almost any type of garment . |
| 21 | The contemporary style of worship songs generally makes them easily sung by a congregation and they lend themselves to a variety of arrangements for voices and instruments . |
| 22 | Above all , they lend themselves to a study of variation and the morphological response of a species to environmental selection processes . |
| 23 | Although the public enterprises have a primary economic task , such as the provision of railways , energy , postal services and so on , they also lend themselves to a wide range of other economic goals , precisely because they are under political control . |
| 24 | The band run themselves on a democratic basis and have their own voting system . |
| 25 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 26 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 27 | The pupils seat themselves in a square representing the doctor 's office . |
| 28 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 29 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 30 | The men amongst the ultra-religious Chasidim immerse themselves in a mikva before the onset of the sabbath in order to purify themselves spiritually . |