Example sentences of "limit themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 2 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 3 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 4 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 5 | Some are highly specialised and limit themselves to one particular type of prey , refusing all other kinds of meat even though it may be highly nutritious . |
| 6 | Surely if the courts and lawyers limit themselves to medical criteria as justifying their sex classification system , they must follow expert opinion . |
| 7 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |