Example sentences of "adjust themselves [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No country 's parties have yet fully adjusted themselves to the new pattern — of the big countries , the United States and Germany are probably closest — but Greece is further away than most of the rest of the western world . |
| 3 | The General could see that the garrison were having trouble adjusting themselves to the new state of things and so , to give them time , he called for iced sherry and soda to be served . |
| 4 | This is probably because the different regions in the polymer rapidly adjust themselves to the applied stress either by orientation and alignment of the tie-molecules between crystalline regions or , as may be more likely , by slip of the crystalline parts . |
| 5 | Home-produced building materials , such as bricks and other refractories , adjust themselves to the prospective demand indicated by the numbers of houses contracted for and begun . |