Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 2 | Prospective mineral developers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate development plans . |
| 3 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 4 | The jury must place themselves in the accused 's position with the accused 's knowledge . |
| 5 | Fourth , residential workers should concern themselves with the personal self-worth of young people as future citizens , thereby giving equal value to the encouragement of intellectual , creative and social skills on the one hand , and success in personal and family relationships on the other . |
| 6 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 7 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 8 | She could view with contempt those of her fellow tourists who , after the Aegean , could excite themselves over the meretricious charms of Venice . |
| 9 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 10 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 11 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
| 12 | They would ally themselves with the united Labour forces and afford the possibilities of developing a mighty Peoples Front which will bring down the National Government . " |
| 13 | Much therefore depended on which brand of them would be returned and whether , as in the past , they would align themselves with the Conservative Party and accept its whip . |
| 14 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
| 15 | Most London homes will find themselves at the top levels . |
| 16 | People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all . |
| 17 | It is therefore also common ground that prima facie Glasgow must be sued in Scotland because of course it is domiciled in Scotland , and that the banks are only entitled to sue in England if they can bring themselves within the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of Schedule 4 . |
| 18 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 19 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 20 | If the guest is settling the bill by credit card they can avail themselves of the express check-out service . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , in the course of talking and pretending , the sovereign states can harm themselves in the real exercise of real power . |
| 22 | When two guanine bases are side by side in the DNA chain , both can attach themselves to the same platinum atom , forming a stable complex . |
| 23 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |