Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 2 | It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 4 | Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist : |
| 5 | They 're getting more educated , they can come out and enjoy themselves without that . |
| 6 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 7 | Pupils are able to identify and direct themselves towards appropriate tasks . |
| 8 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 9 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 10 | Eleven of Britain 's top riders will pit themselves against international stars of the calibre of Kyra Kirklund ( Finland ) , Margit Otto-Crepin ( France ) , Pia Laus ( Italy ) and from Holland Anky van Grunsven and Ellen Bontje . |
| 11 | Third , you are aiming to create an atmosphere in the interview which will encourage the candidates to talk and show themselves to best advantage . |
| 12 | ULSTER cattle herds could be under threat from ‘ imported ’ bovine diseases which may not show themselves for several years . |
| 13 | In the pubs , the report added , they would have been ‘ safe … as the pacifists are generally teetotallers who will not show themselves in these abodes of iniquity . ’ |
| 14 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 15 | Indeed , many carers do n't identify themselves as such , partly because this particular job description has been coined on their behalf and many do n't even know what it means : |
| 16 | Whereas in the early church believers were discipled through the teaching and corporate life of the Christian community , the third and fourth centuries saw many of the devout withdrawing to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts to pray and give themselves to spiritual warfare . |
| 17 | It does mean that they ca n't improve themselves by any small land therefore likely ! evolutionary step : none of their immediate neighbours in the local equivalent of ‘ biomorph space ’ would do any better . |
| 18 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 19 | At the same time the GCC instituted collective security arrangements whereby the six , while rejecting outside intervention , would defend themselves against any attack made upon any one of them . |
| 20 | Lynsey was researching a project on how women could defend themselves from potential rapists and sex attackers and planning a BBC documentary on the subject . |
| 21 | Not that anybody would interest themselves in that sort of thing anyway — it simply is n't important , ’ she added rather lamely . |
| 22 | They could also provide themselves with home-made clubs and teach themselves to play . |
| 23 | The directors , in the example given previously , can not retrospectively convert themselves into secured creditors in respect of moneys which they have previously advanced without demanding security . |
| 24 | It is likewise important that those who make use of media such as the audiocassette or videocassette should not see themselves as mere consumers . |
| 25 | But if only now is it God 's intention that they also be admitted to orders , women must necessarily see themselves as some kind of secondary citizens . |
| 26 | ‘ They do n't see themselves as old-style state directors , ’ says Mr Gaidar . |
| 27 | ‘ I always think of doctors as plumbers , but they do n't usually see themselves like that . |
| 28 | Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues , however sensitive they might be . |
| 29 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 30 | It is a tradition which emphasises a commitment to the working class as a section of society which should be the object of positive discrimination so that they can avail themselves of educational resources and opportunities . |