Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] themselves to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 2 | Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform . |
| 3 | The promises do not readily lend themselves to precise costings . |
| 4 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 5 | Local GPs and social workers need to know that guaranteed specialist assistance is at hand both day and night and , as distress and despair do not conveniently confine themselves to the hours of nine to five , this means having experienced consultant psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses on call for community work at all times . |
| 6 | Although Marx and Engels did not systematically apply themselves to crime and its treatment , they too showed some ambivalence in their attitudes to the status of crime under capitalism . |
| 7 | ‘ Lions do n't generally allow themselves to be dictated to . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |