Example sentences of "to accommodate [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is likely that he was quick to accommodate himself to the victor and to profit from a new source of patronage . |
| 3 | Those who simplify moral judgement to the application of standards would assume that he has either to impose his own code or to accommodate himself to the other . |
| 4 | With hindsight , the left would have preferred Healey to Kinnock as leader : like all old-style right-wingers , Healey would have known how to accommodate himself to the left ; whereas Kinnock felt obliged to root it out of the party . |
| 5 | As we have already seen , Tories were largely able to accommodate themselves to the Revolution ; most could accept William at least as de facto ruler , and some , following Edmund Bohun , were even able to rationalise the events of 1688 – 9 in such a way as to conclude that William was also monarch de jure . |
| 6 | If the Declaration of Rights gave the Tories the sort of legal assurances they wanted , to what extent were they able to accommodate themselves to the break in the hereditary succession ? |
| 7 | Such a statement is misleading , because it seems to imply that the Tories were Jacobites at heart ; in fact , most Tories were able to accommodate themselves to the break in the succession which had taken place in 1688 – 9 . |
| 8 | While other institutions needed to accommodate themselves to the decline of formulary procedure and the new predominance of cognitio , trusts were in need of no adjustment . |