Example sentences of "have [verb] themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanical card operated locks have distinguished themselves over the years with proven durability and reliability as well as pure simplicity . |
| 2 | Therefore , virtually all methods of land evaluation have limited themselves to the physical factors of climate , relief and soil . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 5 | Local youngsters have formed themselves into an action group in Ness and have repaired and redecorated the community hall , sponsored a Job Creation project for further improvements to the kitchen facilities and environs , formed a local band , organised a sponsored clean up , established representation within the Community Association and plan to develop a workshop attached to the hall . |
| 6 | Before all that , however , England have to readdress themselves to the problem of defeating the Irish and the Dutch , who beat them in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf last year . |
| 7 | The absence of any coherent and agreed philosophy for the media in many African countries is a matter which is of obvious concern to many of that continent 's politicians as well as its media professionals , and a number of African leaders have addressed themselves to the problem . |
| 8 | These difficulties have resolved themselves into the question : is the comment " fair " , in the sense of being one which the commentator could honestly express , on the strength of such of his facts as can be proved to be true ? |
| 9 | Rovers have lifted themselves off the bottom of the table … but United can win … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Both UDF and RPR have resigned themselves to a two year ‘ cohabitation ’ under the Socialist presidency of Francois Mitterrand . |
| 13 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 14 | That much accomplished , the yeast presumably could be spread over Seveso in Italy , Times Beach in Missouri , and other places where chlorinated aromatics such as TCDD have insinuated themselves into the environment . |
| 15 | People who go out of that door have committed themselves to a date . |
| 16 | The second argument is that the governments of the EC have committed themselves to the goal of Monetary Union in communiqués at the end of summits in the past . |
| 17 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 18 | Employers and , indeed , trade unions have committed themselves to the CBI 's testing and challenging education and training targets . |
| 19 | This process has placed enormous pressure upon our employees and it is tremendously encouraging to see the way in which staff have committed themselves to the new organisation . |
| 20 | Yesterday , a clutch of companies which have committed themselves to the project , including the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo , were awarded Liverpool Compact Partnership Bonds . |
| 21 | But once they have committed themselves to an investment or two , the potential of a larger portfolio appeals , and they plunge beyond the point of easy return . |
| 22 | Therefore , once the parties have committed themselves to an offer and acceptance , it is too late to introduce new terms . |
| 23 | The sociologists of art who discuss music have to restrict themselves to the conditions in which it is performed , produced , or received , rather than the music itself . |
| 24 | Included in this group are schizophrenic subjects who have injured themselves as a consequence of a delusional belief ( for example , that part of the body was evil ) , or because of an hallucination ( such as one in which voices tell the subject to harm himself ) . |
| 25 | The mood has been very different from Labour 's controlled and skilfully-packaged press conferences , where Mr Kinnock and his shadow Cabinet colleagues have presented themselves as a government-in-waiting . |
| 26 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 27 | Indeed , successful environmental scanning draws attention to possible changes and events well before they have revealed themselves in a discernible manner . |
| 28 | And those long gentle lines of the dip-slope of the Cotswolds , those misty uplands of the sheep-grey oolite , how they have lent themselves to the villainous requirements of the new age ! |
| 29 | The fact that the gung-ho tabloids have wrapped themselves in the Union Jack does not mean that they are accurately reflecting the public mood . |
| 30 | At Toshiba , workers at one of its research centres have relieved themselves of the burden of calibrating oscilloscopes by programming a robot hand to push , pull , twiddle and slide the controls as necessary . |