Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] themselves with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave our people time to familiarise themselves with the new plan before our Appointed Representatives ( ARs ) and Independent Financial Advisers ( IFAs ) received details . |
| 2 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 3 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nowhere is this as clearly illustrated as in the struggles of black workers and in the way in which white workers have aligned themselves with the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 6 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 7 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 8 | In studies of disability , I have been surprised by the number of sexually handicapped people in their fifties and beyond who have consoled themselves with the belief that they are , in any case , too old for sex to have much meaning . |
| 9 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 10 | All primary teachers need to familiarise themselves with the requirements for history at Key Stage 2 ( see Boxes 9 and 10 ) . |