Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the failure to introduce new benefits , payments or services is a much blunter grievance : political opponents have only something hypothetical to discuss ; individual electors do not easily identify themselves with the deprived . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity . |
| 4 | And when it got particularly boring they would amuse themselves with a 15-minute rendition of ‘ Frank Clark knows my father ’ substituting the full back for the equally famous Lloyd George . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 8 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 9 | Anyone attempting to walk the Penning Way should equip themselves with a new free leaflet from the Countryside Commission . |
| 10 | English ships could equip themselves with a heavy weight of broadside relatively cheaply , so that they were built simply to carry guns without worrying too much about anything else . |
| 11 | Prospective mineral developers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate development plans . |
| 12 | Joe Reynolds and Amy Winship might just find themselves with a long weekend ! ’ |
| 13 | But when he works his way round to the Home Office budget , campaigners against the Fazakerley jail could find themselves with a powerful new ally . |
| 14 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The resultant pseudo-scientific arguments will then concern themselves with the meaningless question as to whether the fauna of the intervening strata pertain more to the stage below or to the stage above . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 19 | All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations . |