Example sentences of "[to-vb] ourselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 2 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 3 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 4 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 5 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 6 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 7 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 8 | Also a good pointer where we 've been able to compare ourselves with civil engineering scaled fees , which was on the Overtown Bank Slip which was a job which went completely right , perfect no problems . |
| 9 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 10 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 11 | Our first degree of specialisation to make the notion useful is to restrict ourselves to linear operators . |
| 12 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 13 | For example , when we speak we tend to express ourselves in short sentences — more " full stops ’ — but in the written language the same ideas are more usually expressed in longer sentences — more commas — and the style and the choice of words will not always be the same . |
| 14 | As a New York merchant expressed it in 1762 : " Our importation of dry goods from England is so vastly great , that we are obliged to betake ourselves to all possible arts to make remittances to the British merchants . " |
| 15 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 16 | Commenting on the transactions , Joe Darby , LASMO 's Chief Executive , said today : ‘ These disposals are part of our continuing strategy to reduce debt and gearing and to divest ourselves of peripheral assets when attractive prices can be obtained . |
| 17 | Well we 'd have to divest ourselves of some of our assets . |
| 18 | It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils . |
| 19 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 20 | However , there is no particular reason to confine ourselves to constant per unit prices , and we should also consider non linear outlay schedules , in which charges are not strictly proportional to the number of units purchased . |
| 21 | To protect ourselves from physical rather than social attack , we must extend that private area and , in times of danger , exclude from it anyone who is not a known friend . |
| 22 | We want to address ourselves to concrete problems in today 's world . |
| 23 | We have a wonderful capacity , some would say an over-developed capacity , to project ourselves into other beings . |
| 24 | It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective . |
| 25 | Some of these are deeply rooted and irrational ; they spring from fears about ageing and death and from the psychological need to distance ourselves from selected groups of people ( homosexuals , blacks , etc . ) . |
| 26 | We wish to distance ourselves from such inferences , even though naturally we would expect our findings to generate constructive discussion about the effective use of pupils ' and teachers ' time in primary schools . |
| 27 | We may assert that people are essentially good and born in a ‘ state of grace ’ because we need to convince ourselves of these facts . |
| 28 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 29 | He is convinced we have to adopt entirely new value systems , change our philosophical orientation and spiritual thinking ; stop behaving as though the earth is here for mankind 's personal convenience and learn to regard ourselves as one small part of a much larger whole . |
| 30 | There is much abstruse learning on the subject ( see , in particular , the illuminating discussion by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 139–142 ) , but for present purposes it is not , I think , necessary for us to concern ourselves with this point of classification . |