Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 2 | There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention . |
| 3 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |
| 4 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 5 | Although the use of robots has been widely discussed and implemented in large-scale , large volume industries , their use in small manufacturing processes have common characteristics which would seem to lend themselves to the application of robotic techniques . |
| 6 | In the absence of any guarantees , Rangers may care to comfort themselves with the knowledge that the club have not lost a game in which McCoist has had to replace Richard Gough as team captain , the list including three previous European ties this season . |
| 7 | Labour , on the other hand , wants to abolish A-levels and return schools which would prefer to govern themselves to the control of local bureaucrats . |
| 8 | Only then , with their perilous passage ended , did her crew agree to transfer themselves to the destroyer . |