Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves into " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |
| 3 | This notion of psychological self-help becomes the basis for their feminist politics ( 1979 : 136 ) , the means whereby individuals and collectives can insert themselves into gaps in existing power structures . |
| 4 | Most remarkable of all , if you take two sponges and treat them both in this extreme way and then mix cells from the two , they will reconstitute themselves into a single mixed-parentage entity . |
| 5 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
| 6 | Here are people who quite blatantly do n't give a f— for social pleasantries , leastways not when they can lock themselves into a groove and cunningly misplace the key . |
| 7 | The directors , in the example given previously , can not retrospectively convert themselves into secured creditors in respect of moneys which they have previously advanced without demanding security . |
| 8 | According to FMLN sources , the plan envisaged giving the guerrillas full administrative control over their zone in a " transitional period " , until peace talks produced a final accord which would allow them to disarm and convert themselves into a purely political movement . |
| 9 | Paper pastime CHILDREN who grow bored over the Easter holidays can transform themselves into dinosaurs at London 's Natural History Museum . |
| 10 | We believe that the analysis of these four cornerstones can help women transform themselves into subjects of their own reality . |
| 11 | Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology . |
| 12 | When the Duke of Wellington was confronted by the realities of the steam locomotive he responded : ‘ I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use . ’ |
| 13 | Moreover those units will relentlessly force themselves into the human conscience as being of a wholly desirable nature , that is , good . |
| 14 | But the ancestral organs did not literally change themselves into the descendant organs , like swords being beaten into ploughshares . |
| 15 | With the stickback style , however , it is only necessary to curve the top piece ; the sticks would then position themselves into a curve , even from a straight base . |
| 16 | People may put themselves into residential care if they wish they will pay the whole of the bill . |
| 17 | Said Keegan : ‘ I 've told the lads they can write themselves into the record books . |
| 18 | More dangerous , those who talk of a British constitution may mislead themselves into thinking that there are parts of the system to which a special sanctity attaches . |
| 19 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 20 | He had never seen Englishmen get themselves into such a state before ; they looked more like untouchables . |
| 21 | ‘ If other people can get themselves into these situations , so can you . ’ |
| 22 | Legal : Family members may get themselves into legal difficulties by " covering-up " for the actions of primary sufferers . |
| 23 | Can they make themselves into a statue of , for example , Anancy playing a trick ? |
| 24 | This , of course , runs counter to the Conservative view that workers should be allowed to ‘ price themselves into employment ’ by accepting wage cuts if necessary . |
| 25 | Bungle and guitarist Graham now manage to animatedly throw themselves into proceedings instead of looking like they 're queueing in a pie shop . |
| 26 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 27 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 28 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 29 | Many of these children come from families which do not readily form themselves into associations and pressure groups . |
| 30 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |