Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who simplify moral judgement to the application of standards would assume that he has either to impose his own code or to accommodate himself to the other . |
| 2 | Mr Yeltsin had planned to leave that to Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the reform programme , and to restrict himself to a general state-of-the-nation address . |
| 3 | It is no coincidence that Rousseau also believed that women were incapable of the development and education required for citizenship and ‘ must be trained to bear the yoke from the first … and to submit themselves to the will of others . ’ |
| 4 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 5 | For this reason it is important in essay-writing to learn how to handle markers of cohesion , and to sensitise yourself to the underlying relations of meaning they signal . |
| 6 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 7 | But to stretch himself to the limit should be the pride and destiny of every man , and she shared , in that part of her being that was not maternal , Paul 's disappointment at being excluded from such a brotherhood . |
| 8 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 9 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |