Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] to [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , then , we can confine ourselves to exploring the syntactical properties of such expressions and leave the ontological and epistemological issues , temporarily at least , to one side ? |
| 2 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 3 | I must therefore confine myself to expressing the hope that the Law Commission might look at the subject to see whether there is in fact any good reason now for maintaining a rule which operates to defeat contractually agreed arrangements between the parties ( of which all successors in title are aware ) and which is capable of producing such an extraordinary result as that in the present case . |
| 4 | What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation . |
| 5 | From the day he got out , he would apply himself to spreading the invisible killer . |
| 6 | Researchers might also address themselves to studying the processes by which the implicit is translated into explicitness . |