Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |
| 2 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 3 | I know perfectly well that certain of my colleagues have made some attempt to concern themselves with these questions . |
| 4 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 5 | Unlike their daughter , Meg could understand why , after retirement , they had used all their savings to buy the rectory and had in old age burdened themselves with a mortgage . |
| 6 | Nowhere else have the enormous changes which the machine industry has made in our social life registered themselves with such obviousness as in the cities . |
| 7 | The first is that they should be sufficiently familiar with the company 's affairs already not to need to take further time to acquaint themselves with its business in order to provide the valuation . |
| 8 | The fortunate survivors find themselves with a wealth of food and very little competition in which to grow to their maximum potential . |
| 9 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 10 | He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata . |
| 11 | She felt a sudden burst of indignation against these overstuffed bigwigs cramming themselves with food , while she sat and starved . |
| 12 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 13 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 14 | In those days many Europeans , especially in Kenya , relied on Somalis as their headmen ; in turn , these Somalis identified themselves with their masters and gave them devoted service . |
| 15 | Later scholars contented themselves with trying to find an abstract basis on which gender might turn out to be logical after all . |
| 16 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 17 | In the case of the mid-seventeenth century we find groups of current historians who share social and frequently explicit political assumptions identifying themselves with right and left , and often implicitly acknowledging that their own political agendas dictate not only their naming of the past but their unhappiness with opposing critical orientations . |
| 18 | Anglican clergymen busied themselves with preaching up theories of divine right and non-resistance . |
| 19 | According to legend , the ancient Britons painted themselves with woad to frighten their enemies but , almost certainly , this was not the only reason for so doing , since it is a styptic , i.e. it has the power to stop bleeding . |
| 20 | And , like James Brown ( the American singer ) said on TV the other day , ‘ black kids need black people to associate themselves with . ’ |
| 21 | Breastfeeding was not found to be an area of jealousy and envy as many mothers prepare themselves with books , potties , drinks , and crayons to distract the older child while they breastfeed the baby . |
| 22 | For while there are many for whom the decimation of Baghdad is guided by a fine and noble and sense of justice , many others find themselves with effectively no alternative but to support ‘ our government ’ / ‘ our boys ’ / ‘ freedom ’ or whatever other option is put before them , in spite of their doubts about the validity of the whole bloody exercise . |
| 23 | In this spirit , Section 11 of the 1966 Local Government Act offered financial assistance for those authorities finding themselves with substantial proportions of Commonwealth migrant communities ‘ whose language and customs differ from those of the community ’ . |
| 24 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 25 | Questions of prestige , irrational though they might be , received new emphasis when more people identified themselves with the nation . |
| 26 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 27 | As more and more people concern themselves with psychological growth , we anticipate extensions of intellectual , emotional and creative capabilities . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you realize I 'd be a target for all the men living in World 's End who are just looking for a loose woman to amuse themselves with ? ’ |
| 29 | The physical anthropologists concern themselves with the history and distribution of the varieties of mankind considered as species and sub-species . |
| 30 | During the second world war Burmese and Indonesian nationalists allied themselves with the Japanese , finding them a useful lever against the colonial power and in some ways preferable to it . |