Example sentences of "who [verb] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 2 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 3 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 4 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |
| 5 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 6 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 7 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 8 | Both were manned by a gentry proud of its local influence , provincial patriots who devoted themselves to improving roads and preserving historical monuments . |
| 9 | As many as half the New Yorkers who inject themselves with intravenous drugs may carry the AIDS virus ; in the Tacoma and Seattle area only about 10% of the addicts are infected . |
| 10 | But those who trap themselves inside nationalist thinking , which includes most political journalists and politicians in the UK , prefer not to reckon with the historical fact that most of recorded human history managed fairly well , indeed probably much better , without nationalism . |
| 11 | How all those immigrants and children of immigrants , that the Statue of Liberty , means a great deal to those Americans who whose parents or who came themselves from another country . |
| 12 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 13 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
| 14 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |
| 15 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will join me , the rest of the House and the country in issuing a warning , in the hope and expectation that those who describe themselves as loyalist paramilitaries will not , under any circumstances , physically react to this ghastly occurrence . |
| 16 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 17 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 18 | Of the forty eight-people in prisons who killed themselves in 1989 , 40 per cent had a history of previous mental disorder . |
| 19 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
| 20 | The number of men who hanged themselves between 1982 and 1991 was 624 , while the number of women who hanged themselves was 73 . |
| 21 | For those who find themselves in that category , something extra is now needed , some adventitious stroke of fortune , something to upset the terms of the argument and create a world no longer dominated by a leader of proven unpopularity . |
| 22 | The police have praised Parveen for her courage , but they 're not recommending that women who find themselves in similar situations react in the same way . |
| 23 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |
| 24 | An interest-free loan fund is also available to students who find themselves in unforeseen financial difficulty . |
| 25 | An interest-free loan fund is also available to students who find themselves in unforeseen financial difficulty . |
| 26 | There are many different reasons for being alone and equally different needs to be considered for the people who find themselves in this position . |
| 27 | Teachers who find themselves in this position are of course free in principle to leave . |
| 28 | We are currently considering these issues and expect to offer advice and guidance to actuaries who find themselves in these circumstances which can often prove difficult for a professional advisor . |
| 29 | Perhaps almost by definition , travel , like philosophy , is for those who find themselves in some sense displaced . |
| 30 | In his spare time , Geoff is an active life member of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust , who dedicate themselves to preserving museum pieces of the rich output of Rolls-Royce and associated companies over the years . |