Example sentences of "[verb] themselves with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wild fish ‘ accidentally ’ provide themselves with the right mix of fats , vitamins , minerals , proteins and carbohydrates ; our Koi have no such choice . |
| 2 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 3 | That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity . |
| 4 | 1816 " The meeting have now to relieve Shawfield of the sums now payble. to the Schools in Islay , charge themselves with the said sum , as a provision for four Schoolmasters , at the rate of £16:13:4 Sterl. to each . " |
| 5 | The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government , which was losing its strength and unity . |
| 6 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century the princes of continental Europe had become absolute by gaining direct control of the armed forces and by allying themselves with the landowning nobility . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 9 | Much therefore depended on which brand of them would be returned and whether , as in the past , they would align themselves with the Conservative Party and accept its whip . |
| 10 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 11 | In addition , during start-up and overload conditions the capacitors ( and their larger parallel damping capacitors , if fitted ) find themselves with the wrong DC bias , and charging occurs through potentially very low impedances . |
| 12 | What was she doing on Noah 's mountain alongside a pilgrim turned fanatic and a bearded peasant with whom she could not communicate , while the rock below them exploded like the gunpowder they had brought to ingratiate themselves with the local chieftains ? |
| 13 | On the other hand , those newcomers who wish to ‘ belong ’ may try to ingratiate themselves with the local population , sometimes — because of their misconceived expectations of village life — with disappointing results . |
| 14 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 15 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |
| 16 | In the 1933 elections the socialists no longer associated themselves with the divided fractions of the middle class republican government , hoping to rally a broad following independently . |
| 17 | identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess . |
| 18 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 19 | The magnetised spheres move in such a way that the colours naturally align themselves with the magnetic field of the Earth , following the points of the compass . |
| 20 | It is true that Dicey , the LPDL , and later the BCA , allied themselves with the Conservative party , but this was not because they considered themselves Conservatives . |
| 21 | Although we can not be categorical in relation to the cases in this study , other research has indicated that psychiatrists rarely trouble themselves with the social circumstances of individuals referred , and are rather preoccupied with evidence of mental disorder ( Bean , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Faster go the drums , faster spin the dancers , rush torches show off the paint and the sweat on them — they begin to smash small bottles of some holy liquid and first stab themselves with the broken glass — with no apparent injury , they do not even bleed — and then they eat the glass itself . |
| 23 | Prospective mineral developers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate development plans . |
| 24 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 25 | It is doubtful whether the unfortunates impounded in the Lazzaretto had time to concern themselves with the aesthetic niceties of the building , and it can only be hoped that the church offered them some spiritual comfort . |
| 26 | Readings such as that of Schüssler Fiorenza and Trible may make it easier for Christian women who are feminists to associate themselves with the Christian tradition . |
| 27 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
| 28 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 29 | The resultant pseudo-scientific arguments will then concern themselves with the meaningless question as to whether the fauna of the intervening strata pertain more to the stage below or to the stage above . |
| 30 | Fourth , residential workers should concern themselves with the personal self-worth of young people as future citizens , thereby giving equal value to the encouragement of intellectual , creative and social skills on the one hand , and success in personal and family relationships on the other . |