Example sentences of "to involve [pn reflx] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 2 | There is no need , the reductivist might argue , to involve ourselves in any extra-linguistic considerations . |
| 3 | of the electorate — it is impossible for my colleagues and me to involve ourselves in all the work of the House . |
| 4 | The senior management of the force has required him to involve himself in politics , to deal with an authority out to undermine him , without adequate resources or support : ‘ I am conscious that this job gives no backing to senior officers who are libelled , and as far as I am concerned , the job is derelict in its duty to police chiefs . ’ |
| 5 | Leicester have won just one of their 11 Carlsberg League games this season , but the club suggested that the reason for the dismissal was Johnson 's unwillingness to involve himself in the club 's junior programme . |
| 6 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 7 | Although Anglo-Spanish relations deteriorated after 1568 and Philip 's protective mantle gradually began to slip away , the Spanish king still declined to involve himself in plots and conspiracies to overthrow Elizabeth . |
| 8 | Whereas Maurice was always reluctant to involve himself in practical agitation and action , Ludlow was a concrete thinker who was never satisfied until ideals received some sort of institutional expression . |
| 9 | He has a duty to involve himself in ‘ trouble ’ in order to prevent it . |
| 10 | Nor was Chilperic the only Merovingian monarch to involve himself in such building projects . |
| 11 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |
| 12 | On balance , it is probably better not to define such obligations in the partnership agreement itself except in general terms ( Clause 13.01 ) ; ( c ) the obligation on a partner not to involve himself in other professional activity save for the benefit of the firm ( and in particular not to compete with the firm ) and to account to the firm for any profits made . |
| 13 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 14 | High quality opportunism like that is what Tranmere paid Everton £300,000 for but , until he scored , the travelling fans were entitled to question Nevin 's eagerness to involve himself in the game . |
| 15 | More controversially , Henderson linked subsequent failure with the inability of Britain to involve itself in ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 16 | The US government refused rebel demands for military assistance on the grounds that it would be wrong to involve itself in Iraq 's internal affairs . |
| 17 | In response to Hashemi 's testimony the government of Iran issued a statement which neither confirmed nor denied that such a meeting had occurred : " The nature of the current controversies in the USA is absolutely domestic and the Islamic Republic of Iran sees no benefit to involve itself in this matter . " |
| 18 | The coalition wants Congress to involve itself in the details of the agreement , as a means of ensuring adequate environmental and health guarantees . |
| 19 | ‘ I like to involve myself in everything . |
| 20 | I chose to involve myself in matters best left alone . |
| 21 | It cost very little , after all , to demand to be heard , to involve themselves in European negotiations , as all of them did , to capitalize — as James V did with supreme ability — on the problems of popes and European kings . |
| 22 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 23 | There were those , however , who decided by a quite conscious effort of will to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of such humble if not squalid areas of London ; one such man was Rev. William Quekett , about whom Dickens was here writing in his article , ‘ What a London curate can do if he tries ’ . |
| 24 | Even when there is clearly a need for the service provided , there are often far too few people willing to involve themselves in providing it , so that when the originators leave , the service dies . |
| 25 | How much more useful if some of the country 's most distinguished writers , journalists and Shakespearean actors were to decide to involve themselves in community service by visiting schools on a regular basis . |
| 26 | The Eladeldi were never known to involve themselves in medical matters . |
| 27 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |
| 28 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 29 | The recently launched Parents against Tobacco ( PaT ) is a forum for patents to involve themselves in anti-tobacco campaigning on behalf of their children . |
| 30 | In recent years there has been a trend on the part of certain police authorities to move from discussing equipment , etc. , to attempting to influence styles of policing and indeed to involve themselves in operational matters , for example in relation to industrial disputes and demonstrations . |