Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During February , 1692 the Campbells went to Glencoe and under the guise of friendship billeted themselves on McIan Macdonald and his kinsmen . |
| 2 | But the argument is too neat , and dependent on the assumption of a desire on the part of filmmakers to express themselves about contemporary realities that was being repressed by the censorship system . |
| 3 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 4 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 5 | One of the notable features of the mid-Thatcher period was a revival of the civil liberties movement , as governmental pressures against individual right of expression impressed themselves on the public consciousness . |
| 6 | If the temperature also rises above the bees ' favoured level of 35°C , a group of workers position themselves near the entrance with their tails pointing outwards and then start fanning their wings so that the stale air is wafted out . |
| 7 | Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all . |
| 8 | The car slowed again more gently as the Annamese driver spotted another group of peasants gathering themselves at the roadside fifty yards ahead . |
| 9 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 10 | It must not be supposed , therefore , that the desire of Protestants to dissociate themselves from Catholic Christianity automatically created a disposition in favor of free thought . |
| 11 | The prospect of students saddling themselves with enormous debts to pay their course fees and their maintenance is a frightening one . |
| 12 | But , although they defended free trade against Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reformers , most of the leading Liberal politicians and an influential minority of socialists accommodated themselves to the underlying assumptions of the new imperialism . |
| 13 | They plan a tour of Britain to familiarise themselves with the British style and the first place they wish to stop is Dundee for the game with United . |
| 14 | There were those , however , who decided by a quite conscious effort of will to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of such humble if not squalid areas of London ; one such man was Rev. William Quekett , about whom Dickens was here writing in his article , ‘ What a London curate can do if he tries ’ . |
| 15 | Problems that arise include the unwillingness of clinicians to see themselves as resource managers . |
| 16 | From mid-September the security situation worsened , with a number of students burning themselves to death in protest . |
| 17 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 19 | It is n't easy for a lot of women to display themselves in this way to someone . |
| 20 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 21 | They are also likely to be the most difficult , independent , bad-tempered , and stubborn ; but if they want to work for you they have the strength of character to extend themselves to their utmost limits , and further than other horses . |
| 22 | Those who preferred the pretence of business immersed themselves in a book and , from time to time , made an ostentatious note . |
| 23 | These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency . |
| 24 | A relay of tapes filled themselves in the machines on the table beside them . |
| 25 | The emphasis is still on interests overtly organised in political action , and this occurs to the detriment of a sustained consideration of the implications of inaction , the problem of interests forming themselves into groups , and the whole context of politics and power . |
| 26 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 27 | Hence the constant , and eventually often vain , calls of the leaders of such new states to surmount ‘ tribalism ’ , ‘ communalism ’ , or whatever forces were made responsible for the failure of the new inhabitants of the Republic of X to feel themselves to be primarily patriotic citizens of X rather than members of some other collectivity . |