Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 2 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 3 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 4 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 5 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 6 | He will only say : ‘ Toyota have not committed themselves to the Circuit of Ireland or any other rally this year . ’ |
| 7 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 8 | How can the Government give an assurance that there will be no change in VAT rates when , under the Single European Act , the Government have already committed themselves to a policy of convergence of VAT rates throughout the European Community ? |
| 9 | Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure . |
| 10 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 11 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 12 | Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) . |
| 13 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 14 | No wonder the C of E had not endeared itself to the working classes , Spruce reflected . |
| 15 | He spent his youth in Provence where three generations of his family had already devoted themselves to the arcane mysteries of perfume business . |
| 16 | This weekend she had finally braced herself to the course of obtruding the existence of Len into the house . |
| 17 | The original Hebrew does not quite spell that out in detail , but that was what was meant , and has forever attached itself to the sin of sodomy which was until recently against the law and still is with those under 21 years of age . |
| 18 | The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature . |
| 19 | Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level . |
| 20 | The burgeoning opposition movement here has also extended itself to the army . |
| 21 | As a result , PW had ‘ thereby disentitled itself to the fees it has been paid ’ . |
| 22 | On top of the increased taxes — direct and indirect taxes that would come from their spending pledges — the Opposition have now committed themselves to no capping on high-spending local authorities . |
| 23 | The Spanish , Dutch , Danish and Belgian Ministers have now committed themselves to the view that such discrimination is unacceptable . |
| 24 | This this Council has now committed itself to a equality of opportunity and social justice . |
| 25 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 26 | Although still in a state of shock , Mr Singh has now appointed himself to the full chairmanship and , along with myself , represented the club at the funeral . |
| 27 | Pipeline business is the stuff that you 've sent to head office , been put on the shelf , and has n't issued yet , because of maybe medical in the writing , or there 's complications with it , you know , it 's sat on the shelf , but it has n't actually , the policy has n't wanged itself to the client . |
| 28 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 29 | No country 's parties have yet fully adjusted themselves to the new pattern — of the big countries , the United States and Germany are probably closest — but Greece is further away than most of the rest of the western world . |
| 30 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |