Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] themselves [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high-cost economies of the EC can not insulate themselves from the world outside — from the more flexible economies of the Pacific Rim and North America . |
| 2 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 3 | He will only say : ‘ Toyota have not committed themselves to the Circuit of Ireland or any other rally this year . ’ |
| 4 | The Scots could not rid themselves of the English . |
| 5 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 6 | It depends on matters such as physical attributes and abilities of individuals , their monetary resources , the availability of mechanized means of transport and the appropriate infrastructure ; but it does not depend on the opportunities that may or may not present themselves as a result of moving : accessibility alone incorporates this feature ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients . |
| 8 | Thus , in the present case , the scope of the fiduciary duties owed by the defendants to the plaintiff ( and in particular the alleged duty not to put themselves in a position where their duty and their interest conflicted ) are to be defined by the terms of the contract of agency . |
| 9 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
| 10 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 11 | When Malaysia turned attention to export promotion , local manufacturers eligible for export incentives ‘ did not avail themselves of the facility either because of ignorance or owing to the cumbersome procedures ’ ( Ariff and Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 13 | Opposition forwards are not committing themselves to the ruck or maul . |
| 14 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 15 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 16 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 17 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 18 | However , they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design . |
| 19 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 20 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 23 | The work of Piaget ( 1950 ) and Chomsky ( 1957 ) is essentially about thinking and language or psycholinguistics , but these authors did not concern themselves with the level of problem which arises when , for example , a physiologist and a psychologist attempt to exchange mutually supportive ideas . |
| 24 | A more relevant criticism is that manifesto promises may not address themselves to the country 's real problems . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |