Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By asserting it , however , we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind . |
| 2 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 3 | This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality . |
| 4 | As with any other area of living , we need to commit ourselves to a Christian world-view and not be tempted to borrow from secular philosophy . |
| 5 | We treated ourselves to a sweet as well . |
| 6 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 7 | Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ? |
| 8 | every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew . |
| 9 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 10 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 11 | Of course , he did say that not committing ourselves to a single currency was the point of agreement that ’ all sensible people ’ would have . |
| 12 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 13 | Therefore , we pledge ourselves to the following : |
| 14 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 15 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 16 | And kill them , you say , and help ourselves to the great burrow ? |
| 17 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |
| 18 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 19 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 20 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 21 | There are two options open to us : we can either mount a much more restricted display in the Library than originally hoped ( restricting ourselves to the two display cases in the Barrel Vault leading to the foot of the main staircase ) , or we can examine the possibility of creating a panel-mounted display which would go on show both in the Library and in other venues . |
| 22 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 23 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 24 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 25 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 26 | Confining ourselves to the obvious , it is clear that for paragraph ( a ) to apply the seller must be in breach of contract . |
| 27 | So let's really all commit ourselves to the national raffle and make it the biggest and most successful raffle Save The Children has ever had . |
| 28 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 29 | Their memory and remembrance — rediscovered and kept alive in historical reconstruction and actualized in ritual celebration — encourage us in historical solidarity with them to commit ourselves to the continuing struggle against patriarchy in society and church . |
| 30 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |