Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 2 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 3 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 4 | First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes . |
| 5 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 6 | The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse . |
| 7 | Whether you 've been asked to open the discussion or not , you should prepare yourself for the tutorial as follows : |
| 8 | Consequently , they should prepare themselves for the process by shaping the plans for their appointment procedure in some detail . |
| 9 | Prospective mineral developers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate development plans . |
| 10 | He acknowledges that before a contemplative is ready , like Moses , to climb the mountain , he must prepare himself by the time-honoured Western disciplines of Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio — study of scripture , meditation and prayer — but he tells his readers that other authors will tell them all they need to know about these . |
| 11 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |
| 12 | He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions . |
| 13 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 14 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 15 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 16 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 17 | Adenauer 's view was that West Germany must tie itself to the Atlantic Alliance in order to ensure Western support against Russia . |
| 18 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 19 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 20 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 21 | Trade unions should confine themselves to the business of wages and conditions . |
| 22 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
| 23 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
| 24 | He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished . |
| 25 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 27 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 28 | She wants her image ‘ sorted out ’ before she signs a deal to prevent any manipulation , to ensure no one tells her how she should present herself to the record-buying public . |
| 29 | However , before competing again you must present yourself to the tournament doctor to have both the injury and your bandaging accepted . |
| 30 | The fiduciary relationship , if it is to exist at all , must accommodate itself to the terms of the contract so that it is consistent with , and conforms to , them . |