Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 2 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 3 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 4 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 5 | Since migrants and alien communities obliged to leave en masse usually return to their countries of origin , they are not usually technically refugees ; nevertheless they may find themselves in refugee-like situations . |
| 6 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 7 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |
| 8 | Head of Department : ‘ Quadruple sessions are needed , particularly for ‘ O ’ Level groups , as they must pace themselves for a 3 hour drawing exam . ’ |
| 9 | Propaganda by itself was insufficient ; they must involve themselves in social agitation and make it known that the republicans were involved : |
| 10 | No wonder there was no inheritance for the children and they must scrape themselves with newspaper and redden their pampered fingers in icy water now that the goose who laid the golden eggs was dead . |
| 11 | In this respect too , the court is exercising its power of review , by identifying more closely for the police the questions that they must ask themselves in deciding whether or not they are entitled to take preventive action . |
| 12 | Whenever a person is confronted either with death or potential life , they must immerse themselves in a mikva in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 13 | First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes . |
| 14 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 15 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 16 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 17 | Consequently , they should prepare themselves for the process by shaping the plans for their appointment procedure in some detail . |
| 18 | After all , there 's no reason , bar some weird dictate of trendiness , why they should define themselves against indie-kids ; no reason why they should be so consumed by some spurious culture to become impervious to the outside world . |
| 19 | They should ally themselves with health service workers ( including managers ) and inspire them to help analyse the determinants of good and bad health , assess health needs , promote health , and evaluate services , thereby achieving public health goals , albeit indirectly . |
| 20 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
| 21 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 22 | All the creatures that we have to kill and eat , all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves , have souls , like we have , souls that do not perish with the body , and which must therefore be propitiated lest they should avenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies ( see Rasmussen , 1929 ) . |
| 23 | But we do have a measure of optimism that they might reflect themselves in further years like ninety two/ninety three and onwards . |
| 24 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 25 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 26 | They might establish themselves in some suitable centre of social life for a while , as that Latin-American family did which the Paris Guide of 1867 records as arriving with eighteen wagons of baggage . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They could protect themselves at least as well by simply keeping their heads down . ’ |
| 29 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 30 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |