Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method was duplicated precisely in Stalin 's Russia , in which children who had betrayed their parents were celebrated , and where the secret service set up its own subversive societies to encourage traitors to show themselves . |
| 2 | But as a party and as a government we have a duty to encourage families to better themselves and discourage dependency . ’ |
| 3 | There is no need for the whole group to watch playback sessions — it is a much better use of time to train teachers to monitor themselves and to consult their tutor when they feel the need for it . |
| 4 | It is generally recognised at Community level that it is both inequitable and contrary to the objectives of a single market for certain firms in the Community to be immune from the commercial benefits and burdens of being taken over or to be able artificially to create methods to defend themselves from takeovers , while firms from other member states remain vulnerable . |
| 5 | The need to prepare schools and help to help schools prepare themselves for the erm review of the national curriculum the changes that they will have to deal with and in particular I think , erm to help secondary schools to come to terms with changes in key stage four and the likely erm opportunities there will be for a more diverse curriculum including eventually er the opportunities for more vocational programmes in schools and to assist schools |
| 6 | And all this is just part of a programme that seeks to help women help themselves . |
| 7 | Democrats , whilst welcoming Bush 's retreat on the tax issue , argued that it was unreasonable to expect Democrats to associate themselves with spending cuts and tax increases , if they could not be certain that the President could hold his own party to such a deal . |
| 8 | A range of indoor leisure facilities to enable owners to occupy themselves when the weather makes it necessary to stay ‘ on site ’ . |
| 9 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic followed his foreign minister to refuse to take part in any further big peace conferences and instead urged the international community to let Muslims defend themselves against the Serbs . |
| 10 | As Laumann and House suggest , they can usually be depended on to adopt design-languages distinguishing themselves from those who have not yet arrived . |
| 11 | Described as a " magazine for the fair daughters of Great Britain and Ireland " it contained a variety of essays , articles , poems and serials when it first appeared , and announced that its aim was to " convince the sceptical that it is wise and well to qualify women to maintain themselves honourably and decently when through illness , death and desertion or bankrupt circumstances [ they are ] thrown on their own resources " . |
| 12 | The object of providing for arbitration rather than trial in small claims is to allow litigants to represent themselves at a hearing where their ignorance of procedure and adversarial techniques will not be a handicap . |
| 13 | The United States yesterday said that lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia to allow Muslims to defend themselves was an option . |
| 14 | Edinburgh received funding in 1989 as part of the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative to assist students to prepare themselves for their future . |
| 15 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 16 | Finally , there is a group of patients who are considered mentally unfit to make decisions concerning themselves . |
| 17 | No , they had not ‘ intimidated ’ the proprietors , they had urged them to sign documents pledging themselves to appeal to government to rescind the Act . |
| 18 | Through the early growth of the brain these ape-hominoids developed greater fluency in the use of their hands and began to fashion tools to protect themselves against the powerful hunters . |