Example sentences of "themselves of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 2 | With Europe in recession and fears about unemployment , Britain and other countries which could previously be relied upon to put the case for a freer market ( and a bigger share for themselves of Japanese investment ) are no longer being heard . |
| 3 | In a battle near the town of Hargeisa on Sept. 13 the SNM claimed to have killed at least 150 government soldiers with a loss to themselves of five dead and 20 wounded . |
| 4 | For the people as a whole , therefore , the destruction of the Temple and the exile to Babylon came to be viewed as a dramatic realization of these doom prophecies , and proof of the absolute power of the jealous God Yahweh , and — harnessing these concepts to their own pragmatic ends — the exiles set about ridding themselves of all impurity in an effort to regain his favour . |
| 5 | As E. Welbourne showed in ‘ Bankruptcy Before the Era of Victorian Reform ’ , ‘ men in prison who had stripped themselves of all they had , could produce £2,500 in notes from under the bed . ’ |
| 6 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
| 7 | Those who wish to avail themselves of all the different kinds of harmonics possible will find the information they require in the larger text books of orchestration . |
| 8 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 9 | My purpose here is simply to draw attention to two things : first , the danger of oversimplifying the task of evaluation by using a single measure ( for example reading test scores — themselves of dubious validity ) to measure the effectiveness of a practice with much more complex aims ; and second , to emphasise how the evaluation task may be different according to the approach to support teaching which we adopt . |
| 10 | At lunch at the commissary of 20th Century Fox , Spyros P. Skouras ( he who had insisted that his movie makers clear themselves of Communist taint ) asked in his speech where else in the world but in America could a poor Greek boy have become so important a person as president of 20th Century Fox ? |
| 11 | This lies , rather , in formulation and acceptance by teachers themselves of new , less control-centred educational purposes , along with an easing of the constraints and conditions in which those purposes are to be fulfilled . |
| 12 | Members of Wales PPA quickly realised that these published beliefs were the same as their own , and that here was perhaps an opportunity to avail themselves of much-needed funding to establish support systems which would enable families to take their rightful place in the local playgroup or mother and toddler group . |
| 13 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 14 | More importantly , however , considering the perilous economic climate and the number of people out of work , he is also considering kicking off an employment register of sorts where Uniforum members looking for jobs could avail themselves of free advertising in the group 's magazine Uniforum Monthly . |
| 15 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 16 | The extension of legal aid after the 1939–45 war was bound to affect the numbers of people able to avail themselves of this service . |
| 17 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 18 | One would have thought that if firms of auditors were as worried by the threat of litigation as they sometimes suggest , then they would at least have availed themselves of this elementary safeguard . |
| 19 | Organisations seeking to avail themselves of this opportunity need to catch a high speed train pretty quickly ! ’ |
| 20 | Swayed by similar arguments , the governments of the rich countries have now largely deprived themselves of this option . |
| 21 | The significant features of this meeting were : ( 1 ) the bank 's anxiety ‘ to disembarrass themselves of this unsecured overdraft , ’ i.e. the overdraft on the Dempsey accounts ; ( 2 ) according to Bunn the husband executed a mortgage on his house supporting a guarantee of the overdraft , saying that the property was in his sole name , but that the wife and children were occupiers ; and ( 3 ) again , according to Bunn 's evidence , set out at p. 361 : |
| 22 | I am prepared to hold a similar ‘ Teach-in ’ for your District Councillors if they would like to avail themselves of this . |
| 23 | If your Councillors would like to avail themselves of this please contact either myself or in my absence Mr A Stein ( 469 5001 ) or Mr M Peterson ( 469 5006 ) to arrange a suitable date and to finalise details . |
| 24 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 25 | In particular , at the very end of the questionnaire we invited general comments about SSE and one-third of the teachers who responded availed themselves of this opportunity . |
| 26 | Anyone wishing to avail themselves of this facility should contact the Hotel direct . |
| 27 | If a young person who reached the age of 16 on July 2 was lucky enough to obtain employment would they be unable to avail themselves of this opportunity and be forced back to school ? |
| 28 | And how many schools avail themselves of this opportunity each year ? |
| 29 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 30 | Techs who were expert in the Machine Mysteries , autonomous-minded slaves , administrators , ship crews — all the host of support staff for the Marine chapter — slept in modestly comfortable dormitories … assuming that they needed , or could avail themselves of modest comfort during sleep-time . |