Example sentences of "by [v-ing] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 2 | Also , the trio have just been offered the chance of following in the footsteps of The Osmonds and The Jackson Five by allowing themselves to be made into a Saturday morning TV cartoon series . |
| 3 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 4 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 5 | Arrests were made as Earth First ! members adopted the group 's traditional tactics of direct action by chaining themselves to bulldozers . |
| 6 | From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions . |
| 7 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 8 | They 're letting down womanhood by selling themselves on their sex . |
| 9 | In the eighteenth century the princes of continental Europe had become absolute by gaining direct control of the armed forces and by allying themselves with the landowning nobility . |
| 10 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |
| 11 | The media also perceive some institutions as more ‘ important ’ and hence more ‘ newsworthy ’ than others and they perpetuate that perception by locating themselves within or near those institutions . |
| 12 | Most notably , it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills . |
| 13 | Nothing here said denies that one reason for holding voluntary undertakings to be binding is to enable people to encourage reliance by committing themselves to a course of action . |
| 14 | People , he argued , evaluate themselves by viewing themselves through the eyes of others . |
| 15 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |
| 16 | By distancing themselves from the use of violence , the Islamist leaders hoped to move towards eventual legalization of the party . |
| 17 | People most strenuously seek to evaluate their performance by comparing themselves to others , not by using absolute standards . |
| 18 | Previously naff companies are suddenly revamping their image by involving themselves in dance music . |
| 19 | They were devalued , if you like , by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 20 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 21 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 22 | Their employee costs are much lower than ours , their social costs are much lower than ours and in and in the real world , we have to compete with them , and the boiling point will come from being competitive , supplying goods and services at a cost that the other countries will not by putting themselves in straight-jackets . |
| 23 | To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority . |
| 24 | By the way , barristers usually talk about cases by identifying themselves with their lay client . |
| 25 | This latter option appears to have some attraction for Fforde , for in his conclusion he seems to agree with the Thatcherite premise that pre-1979 Conservatives , by accommodating themselves to collectivist reforms rather than reversing them , abandoned their principles and surrendered to the so-called ‘ ratchet ’ effect of creeping socialism . |
| 26 | Nation-states define themselves , in part , in terms of what they are not ; that is , by setting themselves in opposition to alternative degenerate or ideal societies . |
| 27 | Therefore the defenders of the old order must meet the threat by organising themselves to a similar end . |
| 28 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 29 | However , by covering themselves with a mixture of fats and waxes secreted by special glands in their skin , the frogs can avoid drying up . |
| 30 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |