Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of IBM 's fateful decision , the relative handful of customers that had not actively sought all the pricing data available were driven to plug themselves into new information sources . |
| 2 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 3 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 4 | The rail unions staged a series of strikes over poor pay and BR insistence on an end to collective bargaining , and were somewhat surprised to find themselves with public sympathy despite many complete network shutdowns . |
| 5 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 6 | Straightforward in principle , although highly complex in technical detail , the majority of today 's desk-top fax machines rarely seek to sell themselves with seductive design ( the usual Japanese route to consumer appeal ) ; they just sit there , looking like little photocopiers or big telephones , doing what they are supposed to do . |
| 7 | How are they going to replace themselves in good time so that there will be a talent bank of experience , ready to lead ? |
| 8 | It can give them a chance — certainly often seized by widows in the past — to assert themselves with genuine dignity and authority in the public world . |
| 9 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 10 | It must not be supposed , therefore , that the desire of Protestants to dissociate themselves from Catholic Christianity automatically created a disposition in favor of free thought . |
| 11 | A situation in which speakers of a dialect , or non-standard English , are able to express themselves in Standard English in order to cope with social situations , improve their position in society , and operate successfully in the business world . |
| 12 | Your students will be prepared for each news item by structured discussion , and then helped with language and comprehension while watching ; after each item , they will practise and consolidate skills and vocabulary , through parallel reading and further exercises ; and finally they will be able to express themselves in follow-up writing tasks and communicative activities , such as making their own radio broadcast . |
| 13 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 14 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 15 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 16 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 17 | But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs . |
| 18 | The German grain-growers had felt the transatlantic threat , but also wished to protect themselves against Russian grain , cheaply produced and easily distributed by rail . |
| 19 | See also Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 ( insurance brokers ) , and also Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 : " … the character of a general medical practice is such that one who is employed therein as a medical assistant , necessarily acquires such a special and intimate knowledge of the patients of the business that the employers … are entitled to protect themselves against unfair competition on the servant 's part " , per Evershed J. |
| 20 | These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel , presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain . |
| 21 | Other republics which , like Kirgizstan , want to push ahead with economic reform , will leave the rouble system to insulate themselves from Russian inflation . |
| 22 | In subsequent disciplinary proceedings , WM Low 's financial advisers were criticised for not seeking adequate financial information from the target to satisfy themselves about future financing before the offer was announced . |
| 23 | The Labour Party 's environment spokesman , Dr David Clark , described the government 's decision as ‘ a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment ’ . |
| 24 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 25 | to get themselves on top form and at full fitness the Tigersharks are off to San Fransisco on Wednesday … club fund raising and the mums and dads are paying the bill … why abroad … |
| 26 | As his army approached close to the walls of Toulouse itself the townspeople seized the opportunity to emancipate themselves from comital authority . |
| 27 | Although Almsmead , the house they had built , was big enough , she felt quite certain , for half a dozen pairs of newly married turtle-doves to lose themselves in delicious privacy whenever they chose . |
| 28 | They would seek to liberate themselves with European machinery and European techniques . |
| 29 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |
| 30 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |