Example sentences of "themselves to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English attached themselves to the idea of privatising the operator in its entirety . |
| 2 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 3 | They push themselves to the edge of exhaustion . |
| 4 | Initially , the embryos attach themselves to the mass and later move over its surface feeding ( Fretter and Graham , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | A more relevant criticism is that manifesto promises may not address themselves to the country 's real problems . |
| 6 | The report 's authors claim that all three major political parties have failed to address themselves to the country 's ‘ housing emergency ’ . |
| 7 | Other programs lend themselves to the development of a combination of subject , information handling and social skills — database , simulations and modelling programs do this . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 9 | There the cadets made their promises and signed a covenant form binding themselves to the service of God and the Salvation Army " all their days " . |
| 10 | The equity investors will wish to commission a thorough investigation of the business — " due diligence " — before committing themselves to the purchase . |
| 11 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 12 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 13 | The sociologists of art who discuss music have to restrict themselves to the conditions in which it is performed , produced , or received , rather than the music itself . |
| 14 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 15 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
| 16 | In 1980 these countries committed themselves to the concept of health for all by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | Chests like that belonged to a different age , a dangerous age of swashbucklers , and buccaneers who gloried in their toughness , stripped themselves to the elements , and laughed , bare-chested , into the teeth of icy sea-winds . |
| 18 | It is no coincidence that Rousseau also believed that women were incapable of the development and education required for citizenship and ‘ must be trained to bear the yoke from the first … and to submit themselves to the will of others . ’ |
| 19 | They danced wildly down the street , abandoning themselves to the night and the moon . |
| 20 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 21 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 22 | Management can encourage this by ‘ selling ’ a sense of the corporate ‘ mission ’ , or by promoting the company 's ‘ image ’ ; it can reward the ‘ right ’ attitudes and punish ( or simply not employ ) those who are n't prepared to commit themselves to the culture ; |
| 23 | The soul pupa opens its eyes very widely , the pupils dilated with terror , and the horror of its own death is reflected in the retinas — scenes of terrible demise reveal themselves to the character , who can not avoid the gaze . |
| 24 | The emphasis was now on the proliferation of high-capacity small-scale computers capable of greater versatility than the older machines , lending themselves to the formation of networks , and many of them deliberately designed for easy access , so that much of the mystique was being dispelled . |
| 25 | Those who acquiesce in this cynical co-incidence of interest would do well to apply themselves to the conclusions of the recent Ramblers ' Association study on Birds and Walkers : ‘ this work suggests that there is no reason to prohibit public access , but that careful management is required . |
| 26 | Rattus rattus moved all over Europe and Asia , hitching rides on camel trains and on waggons and particularly on ships , and the fleas deserted the marmots and attached themselves to the rats , and the bacilli went with them . |
| 27 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 28 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 29 | identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess . |
| 30 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |