Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 2 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 3 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 4 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 5 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |
| 6 | WINNERS : Peers of the realm , who can continue to make use of the facilities in the Other Place without having to humiliate themselves at the hustings . |
| 7 | The source of this subversive suggestion is the view , already mentioned in the Introduction , that social theorists who adhere too closely to a single set of explanatory canons are liable to put themselves at a disadvantage . |
| 8 | They preferred to keep themselves at a ‘ safe ’ distance from computers . |
| 9 | The object of providing for arbitration rather than trial in small claims is to allow litigants to represent themselves at a hearing where their ignorance of procedure and adversarial techniques will not be a handicap . |
| 10 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 11 | In spite of this , innovation by individuals and communities of farmers in Africa will continue , and for the most part will enable rural families to maintain themselves at a reasonable level of nutrition . |
| 12 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |
| 13 | The cavalry had already ridden through the pall of dust and smoke that hung over the demolished Cutcherry and now they were ready to hurl themselves at the garrison , hastily assembled behind the churchyard wall . |
| 14 | The observers were also especially impressed by the collective concern for those who showed signs of being unable to support themselves at the local level : |
| 15 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |