Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hills remain , for these mountain ranges of southern Greece do not lend themselves to the blandishments of the travel brochure . |
| 2 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 3 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 4 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 5 | Most advocates of biological theories do not express themselves in the same bizarre language and style as Lombroso , and such theories of crime are not merely historical relics that died with Lombroso . |
| 6 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 7 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 8 | All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations . |
| 9 | Dorothy went on with her work for a minute and then asked : ‘ Isobel , what happens to these kids , supposing they do n't drop themselves over the railway bridge in sheer despair ? ’ |
| 10 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 11 | He will only say : ‘ Toyota have not committed themselves to the Circuit of Ireland or any other rally this year . ’ |