Example sentences of "[verb] itself to the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning sub-committee of Buckinghamshire county council , which meets on Monday to consider the scheme , must inevitably confine itself to the planning application before it , and the planning issues arising from it . |
| 2 | Adenauer 's view was that West Germany must tie itself to the Atlantic Alliance in order to ensure Western support against Russia . |
| 3 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 4 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 5 | He placed it in the box and that eventually returned itself to the ticket office . |
| 6 | If the tortoiseshell had still been on the windowsill she probably would not have looked in , but the tortoiseshell had removed itself to the hearth rug . |
| 7 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 8 | They included : the need for international and regional supervision of a ceasefire ; proper political guarantees for the guerrillas ; an end to guerrilla attacks on the civilian population and on the economic infrastructure ; the need for the business community to commit itself to the peace process ; presentation by the government of the Second Geneva Protocol to Congress ; and the continued existence of the Advisory Commission on Public Order . |