Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 2 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 3 | The influence of Community law is steadily expanding , so that each member State is increasingly having to adjust its thinking to accommodate principles and rules derived from other legal systems within the Community and thus to acclimatize itself to a less nationalistic approach to law . |
| 4 | I was absolutely determined not to expose myself to the sort of pain that love can bring . ’ |
| 5 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 6 | She was about to say something when he turned away to introduce himself to the girl on his right . |
| 7 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 8 | It was an example that , in rather different circumstances , was later to commend itself to the Capetians . |
| 9 | Provided the necessary resources to maintain an active programme of exhibitions are made available , the Library is now in a better position than ever before to project itself to the public at large through the use of instructive and stimulating displays . |
| 10 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 11 | Those who acquiesce in this cynical co-incidence of interest would do well to apply themselves to the conclusions of the recent Ramblers ' Association study on Birds and Walkers : ‘ this work suggests that there is no reason to prohibit public access , but that careful management is required . |
| 12 | With hindsight , the left would have preferred Healey to Kinnock as leader : like all old-style right-wingers , Healey would have known how to accommodate himself to the left ; whereas Kinnock felt obliged to root it out of the party . |
| 13 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 14 | In the morning Alix was about to apply herself to a file of Home Office statistics when the phone rang . |
| 15 | ’ — Whatever lies to the west , to invite the people there to submit themselves to the protection of our rule . ’ |
| 16 | He applied his right eye to the hole and blinked once or twice to accustom himself to the darkness . |
| 17 | George went across to introduce himself to the Red Army , an event which boggles the imagination . |
| 18 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 19 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 20 | On the contrary — she had sworn never to marry , never to expose herself to the mercy of a man 's rough or abusive treatment . |
| 21 | Some of these layers are believed occasionally to attach themselves to the living , which can cause madness and even death . |