Example sentences of "themselves to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 32 | How could the French people be expected to remember us when we ourselves have devoted fifteen years to the task of being forgotten , when , for fifteen years , the mainspring of the actions of the entire family has been the fear of compromising themselves , and they have avoided every chance of coming forward , the only way of publicly recalling themselves to the people 's memory ? |
| 33 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
| 34 | For those with an undying desire to stretch themselves to the limit , the Raid Gauloises should fit the bill , according to Jeremy Hart . |
| 35 | In such a situation , it is hard to believe Zarei 's claim that he is still enjoying running , but an essential part of the make-up of any top ultra runner is a fierce determination to test themselves to the limit . |
| 36 | But the hills remain , for these mountain ranges of southern Greece do not lend themselves to the blandishments of the travel brochure . |
| 37 | Just as we should expect , in Chlorohydra the algae transmit themselves to the next generation by means of the hydra 's egg . |
| 38 | Immediately , problems present themselves to the fertile legal mind , and the final part of this paper will concentrate on exploring the implications of this submission . |
| 39 | The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull . |
| 40 | There is a clearly perceptible change of attitude by the public and the people themselves to the relatively affluent and healthy newly retired : the Jollies Jet-Setting Oldies with Lots of Loot ) and the Woopies ( Well-Off Older People ) . |
| 41 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 42 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |
| 43 | ‘ The clouds beneath our feet spread themselves to the water , and the clouds of the sky almost joined them . ’ |
| 44 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Some men tire of the journey and throw themselves to the sea . |
| 47 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
| 48 | Most clairvoyants restrict themselves to the pictures for divination . |
| 49 | While other institutions needed to accommodate themselves to the decline of formulary procedure and the new predominance of cognitio , trusts were in need of no adjustment . |
| 50 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 51 | While most of his contemporaries in the conservation world sit behind desks or on committees , Watson and friends race ‘ kamikaze ’ inflatable dinghies in front of Soviet and Japanese whalers ' harpoons or handcuff themselves to the seal hunters ' vessels . |
| 52 | These are designed , rather on the principle of the weathercock , to orientate themselves to the instantaneous local air movement . |
| 53 | It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) . |
| 54 | When two guanine bases are side by side in the DNA chain , both can attach themselves to the same platinum atom , forming a stable complex . |
| 55 | Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline . |
| 56 | Eutrophication also spawns epidemics of epiphytes , microalgae that attach themselves to the leaves and stems of underwater plants and further obstruct light . |
| 57 | The stores were overrun with rats and mice and the cats came to feast on these rodent pests , thereby endearing themselves to the Egyptian people . |
| 58 | But , in the euphoria of the moment , were the local breeders blinding themselves to the fact that what they were really doing was preserving freaks ? |
| 59 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 60 | And unless all nations commit themselves to the elimination of ozone-depleting chemicals , the agreement is compromised . |