Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | About ten people a day kill themselves by suicide , maybe maybe one in a thousand people who take Prozac get bad reactions to it , but that has to be seen in balance , in the balance of a large number of people deriving a lot of benefit and maybe a few people having some bad reactions . |
| 2 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 3 | Thus , the world and man reveal themselves by undertakings . |
| 4 | So , obstacles or other animals in the vicinity reveal themselves by distorting the fish 's electric field . |
| 5 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 6 | Instead they guide themselves by the stars , as has also been verified by experiment . |
| 7 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 8 | When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves , they are not wise . ’ |
| 9 | The night shifts at some Russian TV stations amuse themselves by using their satellite links to swop pirated tapes of pop music , porn , Bugs Bunny and Bruce Lee . |
| 10 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |
| 11 | There are also several varieties that are viviparous — where the plants reproduce themselves by producing young plants vegetatively between the leaf sinus . |
| 12 | One example is the way Christians become tongue-tied when people define themselves by what they reject in Christianity . |
| 13 | Even feminist psychological theories which reject this biological concept completely , remain determined by it , since they define themselves by this rejection . |
| 14 | Whereas they expose themselves by coming to power , he can remain concealed indefinitely . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , in fact , they always disqualify themselves by dying . ’ |
| 16 | Like most works that over-reach themselves by striving for unattainable seriousness they are probably simply bad . |
| 17 | Now he is playing solicitor Spettigue , whose niece and ward misbehave themselves by having an unchaperoned lunch at Oxford University with a couple of male students . |
| 18 | . All too often they discredit themselves by engaging in character assassination … and by their transparent acceptance of bad research when it happens to suit their case . ’ |
| 19 | People , he argued , evaluate themselves by viewing themselves through the eyes of others . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , at Scone on the 5th February 1284 , Alexander made all the estates of Scotland bind themselves by oath to acknowledge the Maid of Norway as his heir , failing any children Alexander might have in the future . |
| 21 | The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as ‘ probably working-class ’ and divert themselves by ‘ messing around with his mind a bit ’ . |
| 22 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 23 | They all jumped back , very frightened , and some hurt themselves by falling off my body . |
| 24 | All patches identify themselves by name , like ‘ Vibes ’ or ‘ Syn Horn ’ and not surprisingly these patches dish out realistic vibes and synth horn sounds . |
| 25 | Technocracy is described by a prophet of the counter-culture as ‘ that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who , in turn , justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge ’ ( Roszack , 1969 , pp. 7 — 8 ) . |
| 26 | Technocracy is described by a prophet of the counter-culture as ‘ that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who , in turn , justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge ’ ( Roszack , 1969 , pp. 7 — 8 ) . |
| 27 | They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization . |
| 28 | The first which establish themselves by chance in a particular spot , tend , by the mere occupancy of space , to exclude other species — the greater choke the smaller , the longest livers replace those which last for a shorter period , he more prolific gradually make themselves masters of the ground , which species multiplying more slowly would otherwise fill . |