Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 2 | Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming . |
| 3 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 4 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 5 | On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t . |
| 6 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 7 | In June 1991 all EC members except the UK committed themselves to a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent from January 1993 [ see p. 38297 ] . |
| 8 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |