Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 2 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 3 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 4 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 5 | The opening in time for August Bank Holiday Monday , possibly the busiest day of the year for Darlington shops , would give businesses the chance to establish themselves before the pre-Christmas onslaught in mid October . |
| 6 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 7 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 8 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 9 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 10 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 11 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 12 | Women use pieces of attire … to reinscribe themselves in the patriarchal system … . |
| 13 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 14 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |
| 15 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 16 | For United 's own Red flier , Andrei Kanchelskis , warns that the men from Moscow will be on a mission most public — to sell themselves to the big-money clubs of Western Europe . |
| 17 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 18 | Self-help groups can be very useful and ideally every physician caring for diabetics should have access to a person skilled in helping people to rid themselves of the smoking habit . |
| 19 | The fire had been doused under a great , smoking heap of insects ; the human beings shook themselves like dogs to rid themselves of the sickening creatures , which were showing , for some reason , perhaps because she was wearing a white muslin dress , a particular desire to land on Lucy . |
| 20 | The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government , which was losing its strength and unity . |
| 21 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
| 22 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 23 | US and British citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 24 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 25 | There was , they believed , no reason ‘ why competent knowledge and critical skill , if encouraged to exercise themselves in the disinterested pursuit of truth , should be less fruitful in religious than in social and physical ideas ’ . |
| 26 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 27 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 28 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 29 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 30 | After the Istanbul Biennale last autumn , it is the turn of the Greek art dealers to make a bid to put themselves on the international map . |