Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] themselves [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 2 | For these are hyper-competitive athletes , all ex-pro American footballers or wrestlers , and not afraid to punish themselves in the cause of being The Best . |
| 3 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 4 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 5 | Few academics would think it proper to bring themselves before the reader in this way , particularly in a work of learning . |
| 6 | Management can encourage this by ‘ selling ’ a sense of the corporate ‘ mission ’ , or by promoting the company 's ‘ image ’ ; it can reward the ‘ right ’ attitudes and punish ( or simply not employ ) those who are n't prepared to commit themselves to the culture ; |
| 7 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 8 | While the underclass is composed of both black and white workers , black workers , in Elizabeth Burney 's phrase , act as a barium meal in an X-ray — highlighting the weak points — or , for our purposes , the fate of the most disadvantaged , those most likely to find themselves in the ranks of the underclass . |
| 9 | They saw the fascist stewards as the Nazi storm troopers trampling upon liberty and were quick to dissociate themselves from the image which the BUF had gained . |
| 10 | Of these 133 new Majlis members , it was estimated that some 55 were supporters of Rafsanjani and that many of the remainder were reported to be independent candidates likely to align themselves with the President 's faction . |
| 11 | As in the 1987 general election , the Conservatives were readier to put themselves on the line — to be made fools of , as might be , by voters and journalists . |
| 12 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 13 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 14 | The Government encouraged heating and ventilating and plumbing and electrical to remove themselves from the scope of the CITB . |
| 15 | As we have already seen , Tories were largely able to accommodate themselves to the Revolution ; most could accept William at least as de facto ruler , and some , following Edmund Bohun , were even able to rationalise the events of 1688 – 9 in such a way as to conclude that William was also monarch de jure . |
| 16 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 17 | If the Declaration of Rights gave the Tories the sort of legal assurances they wanted , to what extent were they able to accommodate themselves to the break in the hereditary succession ? |
| 18 | Such a statement is misleading , because it seems to imply that the Tories were Jacobites at heart ; in fact , most Tories were able to accommodate themselves to the break in the succession which had taken place in 1688 – 9 . |
| 19 | The net effect of these injunctions ( as well as others we shall meet later ) is to ensure that the natural inability of human beings to respond ‘ perfectly ’ to all situations , however demanding or paradoxical , is construed by those human beings as clear evidence of personal inadequacy : they lack the ability , resilience or ready-made savoir-faire that they somehow ought to have , in limitless supply , if they are to be able to look themselves in the eye in the bathroom mirror each morning . |
| 20 | It is certainly true that in many cases warts will regress and even disappear without any treatment , but it is unclear why this should happen and there is no way of predicting which sufferers will be able to rid themselves of the warts or how to stimulate the body 's defence to that end . |
| 21 | This condition is met wherever there is value in people being able to express themselves in the way they choose , at least where acceptable alternatives present themselves . |
| 22 | Schools were started in the monasteries , for Charles proclaimed that ‘ Men of God should not only live by the rule and dwell in holy conversation , but should devote themselves to literary meditations , each according to his ability , that they may be able to give themselves to the duty of teaching others . ’ |
| 23 | And without doubt , many birds as well as pigeons , are able to guide themselves by the earth 's magnetism . |
| 24 | Although girls may be understandably reluctant to expose themselves to the stares and comments of other girls and boys , their views and experiences of contraception and motherhood could be very relevant and helpful to others of their own age who are still at school . |
| 25 | The non-metropolitan districts had the additional advantage of being able to portray themselves as the victims of county councils spending heavily in one of their own non-election years . |
| 26 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 27 | Their navigational system may be simply an urge to move continuously into water that is minimally cooler , and they may also be able to orientate themselves from the direction of the wave surge and the pattern of ripples on the water-surface . |
| 28 | An abatement notice specifying these works would not be invalid , but should planning permission be refused and further action be taken to obtain compliance with the notice , the Justices need not take the local authority 's advice and order the defendants to implement those works , but if they do , and planning permission is again refused , the defendants may be able to avail themselves of the defence of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ , under s.95 , leaving the local authority to find alternative means to seek abatement of the odour . |
| 29 | In the first half , Everton were overrun by a pumped-up Forest side desperate to drag themselves off the bottom of the Premier League and give the lie to whispers that Cloughie 's powers are in decline . |
| 30 | Their opponents , lacking the shrewd tactical direction and sense of purpose that Chapman provided , were slow to arm themselves against the Cobblers ' swift , sudden onslaughts . |