Example sentences of "themselves [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 2 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 3 | Nowhere else have the enormous changes which the machine industry has made in our social life registered themselves with such obviousness as in the cities . |
| 4 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 5 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 6 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 7 | They find it difficult to defend themselves from such attacks . |
| 8 | The alternative , they argue , is to let the great mass of people engage in market processes , freeing themselves from such dependency . |
| 9 | Clearly , the extent to which the offeror and its financial advisers can satisfy themselves on such matters before the announcement depends on the co-operation which can be expected from the target 's board . |
| 10 | Again , contra Lawrence , it is obvious that for Eliot the idea that modern western society should adopt savage customs is seen as ludicrous and reprehensible , since he believed that not even the lowest of civilized people could adapt themselves to such society without deteriorating and frequently also corrupting the natives . |
| 11 | Many will restrict themselves to such magazines and periodicals in which their chosen authors made significant appearances . |
| 12 | ( 1981 ) , who are able to alter the appearance of their homes , tend not to use modernist styles , which , in any case , do not lend themselves to such appropriation . |
| 13 | For example , it is usually necessary to have a doctor 's certificate before obtaining a walking frame , and many physiotherapists would be horrified at the idea of older or disabled people actually helping themselves to such aids without the benefit of professional advice . |
| 14 | The Government should address themselves to such wasting of money and not to fictitious ideas about Thomas the Tank Engine . |