Example sentences of "[pn reflx] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 2 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 3 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 4 | The waitress made off again , and Dimity applied herself to pouring out the tea . |
| 5 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 6 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 7 | To be fair , engineers are also impressed by the idea of harnessing the purifying capabilities of nature in this way , largely confining themselves to pointing out the real-world constraints on the wilder flights of fancy . |
| 8 | Michael Coogan of the Building Societies Association Legal Department says : ‘ The Government wants mortgage lenders to emphasise to borrowers that they think carefully before committing themselves to taking out a loan . ’ |
| 9 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |