Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , firms may set themselves several targets and not simply restrict themselves to the sole target of profit maximisation .
2 It was decided in Att. -Gen. for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher that the House need not in all circumstances confine itself to the certified question .
3 Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession .
4 Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training .
5 Until I come , devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture , to preaching and to teaching .
6 I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another .
7 " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes .
8 While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice .
9 And kill them , you say , and help ourselves to the great burrow ?
10 Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense .
11 This is probably because the different regions in the polymer rapidly adjust themselves to the applied stress either by orientation and alignment of the tie-molecules between crystalline regions or , as may be more likely , by slip of the crystalline parts .
12 Home-produced building materials , such as bricks and other refractories , adjust themselves to the prospective demand indicated by the numbers of houses contracted for and begun .
13 Just as we should expect , in Chlorohydra the algae transmit themselves to the next generation by means of the hydra 's egg .
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