Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] themselves [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 2 | They should ally themselves with health service workers ( including managers ) and inspire them to help analyse the determinants of good and bad health , assess health needs , promote health , and evaluate services , thereby achieving public health goals , albeit indirectly . |
| 3 | No wonder there was no inheritance for the children and they must scrape themselves with newspaper and redden their pampered fingers in icy water now that the goose who laid the golden eggs was dead . |
| 4 | First , there is the issue of the mandatory reselection of MPs the idea that all sitting Labour Members should submit themselves for reselection by the local party at least once during the lifetime of each Parliament . |
| 5 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |
| 6 | I see no reason why people should drink themselves to death . |
| 7 | Even where it is clear that proceedings be commenced in a county court , practitioners must concern themselves with quantum at the pleading stages . |
| 8 | You can also brief the photographer on any idiosyncrasies , on interests and on which parts of the person 's job might lend themselves to photography . |
| 9 | Since a high proportion of the over 40s in the population met their marriage-partners in dance halls , this nostalgia extends far beyond the group who might regard themselves as ballroom dancers . |
| 10 | Before he had ever seen one , in the early days on HMS Beagle , Darwin worked out that fringing reefs , around islands in an ocean whose bed was slowly sinking , might maintain themselves at sea-level . |
| 11 | To North Korea Japan posed a powerful latent threat : the United States and Japan combined could install themselves in South Korea , boost its economy and armed forces , and encourage subversion against North Korea . |
| 12 | Supporters could perceive themselves as part of ‘ a collective and democratically-structured enterprise ’ . |
| 13 | The better off could avail themselves of banking and credit facilities , shops selling luxury goods , culture in the form of theatres and other entertainment facilities . |
| 14 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be helpful if applicants could record themselves on tape . ’ |
| 16 | In this way the individual cells could protect themselves from danger . |
| 17 | Mothers on out-door relief were to be encouraged or forced by the threat of withdrawal of relief to send some or all of their children into the workhouse , so that the mothers could support themselves by work . |
| 18 | The will of King Eadred ( 946 – 55 ) left £1,600 so that his people could redeem themselves from famine or a heathen army , Cnut defeated thirty ships of pirates early in his reign , and Domesday Book says that under Edward the Confessor ( 1042 – 66 ) the hidage ( broadly , tax ) assessment of Fareham in Hampshire was reduced " on account of the Vikings , because it is on the sea " . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a serious offence , but it means first-time offenders committing that crime could find themselves in prison . ’ |
| 20 | Accordingly , companies could find themselves in front of the Review Panel when an early discussion with the UITF might have saved an embarrassing discussion . |
| 21 | Brothers turned against brother , and married women could find themselves in opposition to their own family , in duty to their husband . |
| 22 | Those who think that they may wish to practise in the North may avail themselves of advice kindly offered by Mr J.M. Shorrock , Hon. |
| 23 | In his statement , Brooke said that Unionist participation would be formally associated with his presence , and the Unionist parties would regard themselves as part of the United Kingdom team . |
| 24 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 25 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 26 | Would free themselves in play , |
| 27 | Parties would finance themselves through membership fees , donations and their own economic activities , but would not be allowed to receive monies from abroad . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the Cane Toad does n't warrant inclusion , because anybody who scrapes the skin off the toad would find themselves in possession of a substance called Bufotenine , which happens to be listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 29 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 30 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |