Example sentences of "[verb] avail [pn reflx] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to whether , and if so how , Parliament cares to avail itself of this opportunity , the Act is silent . |
| 2 | Organisations seeking to avail themselves of this opportunity need to catch a high speed train pretty quickly ! ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , many traders will choose to avail themselves of public notice . |
| 4 | If you would like to avail yourself of this invitation you may do so by giving your names to either Mrs. Hughes , No. 97 , or Mrs. Henry , No. 107 before December 16th . |
| 5 | I am prepared to hold a similar ‘ Teach-in ’ for your District Councillors if they would like to avail themselves of this . |
| 6 | If your Councillors would like to avail themselves of this please contact either myself or in my absence Mr A Stein ( 469 5001 ) or Mr M Peterson ( 469 5006 ) to arrange a suitable date and to finalise details . |
| 7 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 8 | ( i ) Ballot At the start of each session , all Members wishing to promote legislation ( or , more realistically , wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of securing publicity for a cause ) may enter their names on a ballot . |
| 9 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 10 | Anyone wishing to avail themselves of this facility should contact the Hotel direct . |
| 11 | Such a riposte would not , however , be available to a defender of the interpretation of quantum mechanical measurement presently under consideration , supposing him to wish to avail himself of it . |
| 12 | One would have thought that if firms of auditors were as worried by the threat of litigation as they sometimes suggest , then they would at least have availed themselves of this elementary safeguard . |
| 13 | I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether . |
| 14 | If you feel that , over the years , you might wish to avail yourself of some loans for home improvement , a new car , or some major item of expenditure , then you really do need to keep favour with a bank . |
| 15 | A formal hearing may be dispensed with if the parties do not wish to avail themselves of their right to have one . |
| 16 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 17 | The leave of the court or of some other official agency may be required and official assistance may be available to those who choose to avail themselves of it ; but no special steps to initiate the actual business of service abroad will be mandatory . |
| 18 | In particular , at the very end of the questionnaire we invited general comments about SSE and one-third of the teachers who responded availed themselves of this opportunity . |
| 19 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 20 | ‘ If you wish to avail yourself of the bathroom facilities , feel free . |
| 21 | Those who wish to avail themselves of all the different kinds of harmonics possible will find the information they require in the larger text books of orchestration . |
| 22 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 23 | Certainly there is a need for education , but facilities for this exist already for those general practitioners who are minded to avail themselves of the opportunities . |
| 24 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |
| 25 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |
| 26 | Idealistic friars now put their arguments for a propertyless church to the service of Gaunt and other laymen who simply wanted to avail themselves of church wealth for the relief of their own tax burden . |
| 27 | With all due respect to those who intended to avail themselves of the free offer , the first two appointments were not met with sufficient organization to permit cost-effective equipment testing . |