Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It tells how the attractions of the women of Moab , a region to the east of the Dead Sea in which the Israelites were encamped , led the people to join in the worship of their gods , and how ‘ Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor ’ , the chief of the local deities ( 25.3 ) . |
| 3 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 4 | Hand restricted himself to University of London theses because of his ease of access to the original works , and he further restricted himself to a five year period . |
| 5 | After twenty-five years as one of Cologne 's premier dealers , Zwirner will close his gallery in December of this year in order to work as a private dealer and to devote himself to projects of personal interest . |
| 6 | His dedication to the task of reforming Japan meant that he committed himself to policies of fundamental reform and governmental intervention through the office of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers , Japan ( SCAP ) , which he would have condemned in other contexts . |
| 7 | He spends his money and himself too quickly , runs up massive bills , gives , gives , gives , takes , takes , takes , fast forwards himself to extremes of bliss , extremes of abjection , invests unwisely in the single love-object , the addiction or the fetish . |
| 8 | In addition to this , every member will receive a Leisure Card which will entitle you to discounts of up to 50% on up to 350 Days Out around Great Britain . |
| 9 | Since my presence seems to be provoking you to acts of wild aggression , I think it would be best to leave you in peace for a while . |
| 10 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 11 | Does that help you to sort of understand it better ? |
| 12 | So you know it was up to you to sort of prove yourself from from there . |
| 13 | I would n't like you to sort of er |
| 14 | Well , yeah , but I do n't want you to sort of like |
| 15 | mm , more , for you to sort of |
| 16 | afternoon and I was going to ask you to sort of sum up with your views as the sort of |
| 17 | If you want to explore further , in most cities there are plenty of guided bus tours that will take you to places of special interest outside their limits . |
| 18 | The tour takes you to parts of this lovely area of Austria that most clients do n't find . |
| 19 | In general , landfarming lends itself to volatilisation of organic compounds ; in fact , that is often the primary means of removal . |
| 20 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 21 | His address to army officers clearly underlined the split between the army and Prime minister Nawaz Sharif 's civilian government which has confined itself to condemnation of the large scale bombing of Iraq . |
| 22 | Later , he declared , From the beginning Islam represented a political power , not limiting itself to problems of religious practice . |
| 23 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 24 | Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers . |
| 25 | Two other oddities are worth noting : first , the list does not confine itself to words of ‘ request ’ , but includes imperative words such as impero ( evidently a doubtful case ) as well as mando , which is placed in the ‘ normal ’ category , and does in fact turn up in several other texts ; second , relinquo and commendo are excluded : why ? |
| 26 | Because the music is fairly hard , it lends itself to expressions of anger and bitterness and violent feelings rather than blissed-out loveydovey stuff . ’ |
| 27 | The Association applied itself to ways of resolving the continuing tension between the utilitarian needs of business and industry and the reinvigoration of a cultural leadership , its avowed objective being to reconcile practical utility , enlightened patriotism , and the " human ideal " in education . |
| 28 | Will the whole population have to submit itself to tests of their suitability to have children ? |
| 29 | This explains the absence from the " conclusions and recommendations " of any reference to national spiritual unity ( or of contemporary challenges to such unity ) given that in this section the discourse addresses itself to details of state policy . |
| 30 | In terms of the the A nineteen also I think scores reasonably highly on this criterion , the A nineteen south cos again I I would have thought that it does lend itself to assimilation of a new settlement . |