Example sentences of "[vb infin] ourselves to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 2 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 3 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 4 | For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times . |
| 5 | Father said " We 'll restrict ourselves to speech and writing . |
| 6 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 7 | The advantages and disadvantages of objectives can be examined from several viewpoints but we will confine ourselves to three : the practical , ethical and educational . |
| 8 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 9 | Here , we will confine ourselves to obtaining all efficient BFSs and , as our first task , we will develop a test to determine whether the BFS corresponding to a given tableau is efficient . |
| 10 | Surely , then , we can confine ourselves to exploring the syntactical properties of such expressions and leave the ontological and epistemological issues , temporarily at least , to one side ? |
| 11 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 12 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 13 | He first isolated pure lines of eight paired traits ; of which we shall confine ourselves to the lines of tall ’ and ‘ short ’ peas . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 15 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , we do n't confine ourselves to the town . |
| 17 | Now , shall we confine ourselves to business ? |
| 18 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 19 | This means that not only do we describe ourselves to ourselves and create identity constructs but we can also face the issue of whether we want to alter those constructs and become another kind of person . |
| 20 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 21 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 22 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 23 | One would expect ourselves to be bonded with Adam and Eve against our common foe but instead in their unfallen state , they seem to be most unlike the people of today . |
| 24 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 25 | We should aim to increase people 's ability to participate in , and gain the rewards of , wealth creation , rather than limit ourselves to what is , at best , the palliative of redistributive taxation . |
| 26 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 27 | Who do we believe ourselves to be ? |
| 28 | In fact , it may be added , we do not take ourselves to be faced with such an overwhelming task in connection with condition-sets for an effect , and hence for this reason too those sets are wrongly conceived as causal circumstances . |
| 29 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We can not commit ourselves to sacking senior managers who have simply been doing their jobs . |