Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | He prefers the charcoal drawing to the full garish canvas , and this is why , I think , the songs work so well , because , as we listen , individual responses suggest themselves to a line , or a turn of phrase , which by inference , creates a greater sense of empathy and involvement for the listener . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you suggesting we deliberately show ourselves to a human ? ’ |
| 5 | Few of these books , however , have any relevance to teaching undergraduate computer science as they normally restrict themselves to a single language on a single make of computer . |
| 6 | Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . |
| 7 | It did not — how can I put it ? — lend itself to a faster tempo . |
| 8 | Single tartan-style cloches certainly lend themselves to a kitchen garden , although they do n't come cheap — prices start at £58 . |
| 9 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 10 | Further even that this , although it is not possible for knitters to write their own programs for Form , there are programs that lend themselves to a great deal of adaptation and change that can be used to knit almost any type of garment . |
| 11 | The contemporary style of worship songs generally makes them easily sung by a congregation and they lend themselves to a variety of arrangements for voices and instruments . |
| 12 | Above all , they lend themselves to a study of variation and the morphological response of a species to environmental selection processes . |
| 13 | Although the public enterprises have a primary economic task , such as the provision of railways , energy , postal services and so on , they also lend themselves to a wide range of other economic goals , precisely because they are under political control . |
| 14 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 15 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 16 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 17 | He went into retreat and , says Walton , ‘ had many conflicts with himself , whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court-life or betake himself to a study of divinity and enter into Sacred Orders , to which his dear mother had often persuaded him ’ . |
| 18 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 19 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 20 | Now commit yourself to a date to start , whom you will exercise with , and where you will exercise . |
| 21 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 22 | But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them . |
| 23 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 24 | — The people commit themselves to a life of obedience , and Moses sprinkles the remainder of the blood over them ( verse 8 ) — identifying them with the sacrifice made on their behalf both initially and for the failures and sins of everyday life . |
| 25 | Members commit themselves to a weekly meeting and visitations . |
| 26 | Many clients like to shop around before they commit themselves to a solicitor and like to feel that they can find something out about you before they are committed to the payment of fees . |
| 27 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 28 | With all the main meals listed , limit yourself to a very tiny amount of polyunsaturated fat for any cooking or spreading on bread . |
| 29 | Limit yourself to a quick kick around and you 'll never know what you missed ! |
| 30 | Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them . |