Example sentences of "[adv] put themselves " in BNC.

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1 ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients .
2 Thus , in the present case , the scope of the fiduciary duties owed by the defendants to the plaintiff ( and in particular the alleged duty not to put themselves in a position where their duty and their interest conflicted ) are to be defined by the terms of the contract of agency .
3 Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently .
4 The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother .
5 The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position .
6 These other Electors can vote for their chosen candidate , but they can not put themselves forward as Emperor .
7 Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time .
8 They head 600 volunteers who have already put themselves forward for 200 new Government teams which will be checking on classroom standards after September , 1993 .
9 Naturally the ILP remained hostile to the League , commenting that : The only groups which will participate in this effort are the insignificant number which have already put themselves outside the ILP .
10 I find that people tend to not put themselves down for training courses .
11 People who apologize always put themselves so soundly in the right .
12 They had also put themselves into the role of mediators , if anyone wanted to use them .
13 Patients who mistakenly believe that they are sensitive to food often put themselves on increasingly strict diets as their symptoms persist , and they may become seriously malnourished .
14 There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward .
15 Are the parent birds really putting themselves at risk for their offspring , laying down their own lives so that their young may live ?
16 But erm careers officers particularly put themselves down for visits ,
17 A lot of the people who come here put themselves under pressure too
18 CURRY lovers who regularly put themselves through the pain of eating hot , spicy food may be physically addicted to the ‘ high ’ it gives , according to new research .
19 Many women display the chronic kind and are continuously putting themselves down .
20 the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production .
21 wo n't put themselves out for the firm and it 's , it 's you know
22 Here it is important to note that , despite the burden of many of the choices we can now make , people leave themselves with just as weighty a problem by refusing to recognize the options open to them , either putting themselves too easily in other people 's hands or not allowing themselves enough space to make an informed choice .
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