Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They could also provide themselves with home-made clubs and teach themselves to play . |
| 3 | Tutors and students undertaking study for these programmes should familiarise themselves with these regulations . |
| 4 | In general , then , newspapers do usually align themselves with certain political parties and do show their support for political party programmes and policies in a variety of ways , some stronger than others . |
| 5 | ‘ They feel they can distinguish themselves with greater transparency between PS/2s , AS/400s and mainframes , with less translation and overhead . |
| 6 | It would need to find private land on which to meet and other hunts across the region may find themselves with similar problems . |
| 7 | Under Conservative administrations the unions are persona non grata — their interests may be legislated against and their protests and strike actions ignored — whereas business interest groups may find themselves with special influence over public policy . |
| 8 | The majority of collectors of autograph and manuscript material will not concern themselves with these early periods or with anything much before the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | You say — and so does Dr. Briant — that the ‘ safe ’ scientists are the ones who do n't concern themselves with ideological issues . |
| 10 | Books on art appreciation will also concern themselves with formal questions , as they have done since the beginning of the century . |