Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's go , let's cover ourselves in glory — in Africa , ’ and his usually mild tones rose in indignation . |
| 2 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 3 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 4 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 5 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 6 | Negative attitudes are sometimes rationalised and disguised as concern , emphasising that disabled people may damage themselves by undertaking such demanding work ( Safilios-Rothschild , 1976 ; French , 1986a ) . |
| 7 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 8 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 9 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that Asiatic birth rates flourish and will continue to flourish , that the population of Russia may double itself to over 320000000 before decline begins , there is evidence of resistance [ to a declining birth rate ] in Germany and Raly . ’ |
| 11 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 12 | An acquiring company may burden itself with responsibility for pollution , product liability and employers ' liability , where the liability accrued perhaps twenty or thirty years ago , but the claims are only now beginning . |
| 13 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 14 | The Soviets may rob themselves of their own best potential in this way . |
| 15 | You may suit yourself on that one ! |
| 16 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 17 | First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes . |
| 18 | This difference , as we have seen , is between two kinds of causal explanation , and if both can have some force , as Miller believes , it is not obvious why social scientists should restrict themselves to only one of them . |
| 19 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 20 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 21 | The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse . |
| 22 | He is a husband who recites with dull pain the continuing succession of his wife 's lovers , while he must comfort himself with fantasies — his own , or the kind printed on cheap paper . |
| 23 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 24 | Especially , your Assassin must divest herself of every tiny hidden trick . |
| 25 | Whether you 've been asked to open the discussion or not , you should prepare yourself for the tutorial as follows : |
| 26 | Consequently , they should prepare themselves for the process by shaping the plans for their appointment procedure in some detail . |
| 27 | You may say also that I think it well that the musters of the northern counties should prepare themselves for possible action against the Scots at the same date , and those along the south coast should be ready to resist any assault by sea from my enemies in Europe . |
| 28 | LINFIELD fans should prepare themselves for a bout of double vision at Windsor Park next week . |
| 29 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 30 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |