Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb base] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Is that not one of the distinguishing characteristics of an institution of higher education , that its staff do , by and large , conduct research and feel themselves under an obligation to do so ? |
| 4 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 5 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |
| 6 | We flying a glider or throw themselves of the bridge , if it does n't work they die , somebody learns from that , you know , I know it , it really was a fucking |
| 7 | In the novel , humans keep animals to demonstrate their empathy and differentiate themselves from the robots , but the irony is that radiation has killed off almost all real species , and the goats , horses and sheep which people keep are electric androids as well . |
| 8 | They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet . |
| 9 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 10 | I have canvassed the views of my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities who is very European , and he assures me that people who live in the southern part of Spain were totally bemused to wake up one day and find themselves in an invented region called Andalusia with a different Government from than in Madrid . |
| 11 | They will probably require room service and avail themselves of the amenities of the hotel . |
| 12 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 13 | To disobey one 's father in traditional China would violate the filial piety integral to the whole system of mores and be seen as a threat by all ; on the other hand when the young of such a society begin to question the code and assert themselves against the old , they see a disobedience as a blow struck for all of them . |
| 14 | It was n't immediately evident from some camps whether the idea was to continue in a serious vein of rugby competition or subject themselves to the physical demands of the concentrated social calendar . |
| 15 | Patients may only record negative urine testing results in the preprandial state and starve themselves before the diabetic clinic . |
| 16 | Some men tire of the journey and throw themselves to the sea . |
| 17 | ( 1981 , p. 8 ) , however , deny the need to specify a theory of conditioning and concern themselves with the empirical implications of the view that changes in attention will be governed by the known laws of classical conditioning . |
| 18 | Mr Ramsay said they " take advantage of their official position and avail themselves of a report on a school in order to publish their views of the sanitary state of the village in which the school is established , and to offer an opinion regarding the management of an estate of which that village forms a part . " |
| 19 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 20 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 21 | Some of the most highly motivated individuals ( in a career sense ) begin life at the top of the working class and energize themselves into the middle classes . |