Example sentences of "to make themselves [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all it 's the , the finding out erm how best you can prevent one , and then when you 've found that out trying to persuade people to take the necessary measures to make themselves less vulnerable . |
| 2 | But I think that what we 're dealing with in developing countries is not so much erm an unwillingness to make themselves less vulnerable to disasters but much more erm they do n't have the resources . |
| 3 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 4 | They endeavoured , on a number of levels , to make themselves more accountable than previous Labour councils had been . |
| 5 | It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition . |
| 6 | People who are applying for executive and management positions should most definitely do everything they can to make themselves fully conversant with the company , its product and its trading position . |