Example sentences of "themselves of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idealistic friars now put their arguments for a propertyless church to the service of Gaunt and other laymen who simply wanted to avail themselves of church wealth for the relief of their own tax burden . |
| 2 | Both are held to economic ransom by a system that ensures they can never free themselves of debt — no matter how hard they try . |
| 3 | The better off could avail themselves of banking and credit facilities , shops selling luxury goods , culture in the form of theatres and other entertainment facilities . |
| 4 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 5 | Any vacancies on the committee , they co-opt somebody new — someone like themselves of course . |
| 6 | And as says , in some cases this becomes a very powerful force in the personality , some people mobilize so much guilt and hatred against themselves of course it does become self-destructive . |
| 7 | Other examples of applications of high energy technology to agriculture and stock-rearing , such as deep boreholes in semi-arid areas are discussed by Cliffe and Moorsom ( 1979 ) , and Kassapu ( 1979 ) , where it becomes even more difficult for those with dwindling resources to avail themselves of soil conserving and yield enhancing new technologies . |
| 8 | Asked how he decides on the price of a dish , the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) explains that black ingredients are always the most expensive because people like to remind themselves of death . |
| 9 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 10 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 11 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 12 | They become explanations in themselves of female and male psychology . |
| 13 | Floods : Fish in the Amazon have seasonal opportunities to avail themselves of plant material . |
| 14 | Those who think that they may wish to practise in the North may avail themselves of advice kindly offered by Mr J.M. Shorrock , Hon. |
| 15 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 16 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 17 | Banks that want to cash in on the consolidation of American banking now under way may also need to rid themselves of property . |
| 18 | These notations , or are themselves of interest , of course , but their usefulness for present purposes is vitiated by two factors . |
| 19 | EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory . |
| 20 | The few indigenous listeners availed themselves of community sets provided at chief 's courts and administrative centres . |