Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 2 | This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality . |
| 3 | As with any other area of living , we need to commit ourselves to a Christian world-view and not be tempted to borrow from secular philosophy . |
| 4 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 5 | every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew . |
| 6 | Of course , he did say that not committing ourselves to a single currency was the point of agreement that ’ all sensible people ’ would have . |
| 7 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 10 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 11 | And kill them , you say , and help ourselves to the great burrow ? |
| 12 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |
| 13 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 14 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 15 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 16 | So let's really all commit ourselves to the national raffle and make it the biggest and most successful raffle Save The Children has ever had . |
| 17 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 18 | Their memory and remembrance — rediscovered and kept alive in historical reconstruction and actualized in ritual celebration — encourage us in historical solidarity with them to commit ourselves to the continuing struggle against patriarchy in society and church . |
| 19 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
| 20 | Sociologists may , however , note that if God is converting someone to a particular belief , past experience indicates that He is likely to use a social means to achieve His end . |
| 21 | The significance of using this starting point , outside of the actors ' consciousness , can not be exaggerated , because it set Marx , Engels , and other Marxists on an analytical course which was fundamentally different from other social analysts of their time , and which to a certain extent still distinguishes Marxist analyses from many others . |
| 22 | An alternative procedure which businesses are increasingly using , and which to a certain extent obviates some of the disadvantages of seeking an exemption or negative clearance , is to request the Commission to issue comfort letters . |
| 23 | The type of drills and the order in which you construct them will depend on the structure of the new language and also on your own language background which to a certain extent determines in what area you will find difficulties . |
| 24 | Before going on to examine the more detailed contributions of Russian Formalism to specific areas of literary studies , it might be worth pausing to assess the Formalist position by comparing it with the assumptions which it had set out to replace , and which to a certain extent continue to inform ( albeit implicitly ) critical studies still being produced today . |
| 25 | Despite these complaints — which to a large extent were valid comments on BNB at the time of the survey — the main advantages of national bibliographies as selection tools relate to two of the factors mentioned . |
| 26 | Official and public attitudes towards older workers — which to a large extent determine the extent of their inclusion in or exclusion from the labour force — rest primarily on the demand for labour . |
| 27 | But why this peculiar organization of the horseman 's day which to a large extent cut across the hours of the other workers on the farm ? |
| 28 | Beck suggests that we have an automatic style of thinking which to a large extent determines the conclusions we derive from experience . |
| 29 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |