Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun pl] 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 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The tour takes you to parts of this lovely area of Austria that most clients do n't find . |
| 10 | Later , he declared , From the beginning Islam represented a political power , not limiting itself to problems of religious practice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Because the music is fairly hard , it lends itself to expressions of anger and bitterness and violent feelings rather than blissed-out loveydovey stuff . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Will the whole population have to submit itself to tests of their suitability to have children ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Last year , the museum showed works by Thomas Hart Benton from the Kansas City Art Gallery but , otherwise , has restricted itself to exhibitions of local Swiss and Italian artists . |
| 19 | They had drawn up a memorandum agreeing to a National Government led by MacDonald ; it would dedicate itself to economies of 70 million , including a cut of ten per cent in the dole . |
| 20 | Of course , the problem of " relevance " had long been a familiar one to teachers of English within adult and working-class education . |
| 21 | The second exemption is contained in s103(5) which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made by the company in connection with its proposed merger with another company , ie where one of the companies proposes to acquire all the assets ( and liabilities ) of the other in exchange for the issue of shares or other securities of that one to shareholders of the other , with or without any cash payment to shareholders . |
| 22 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 23 | Italy is helping herself to bits of it . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman has introduced me to sayings of his in the House today that I had not previously appreciated . |
| 25 | The gain for The Law Society is that they will be able to certificate solicitors who have undertaken further training entitling them to rights of audience in the higher courts . |
| 26 | Moreover , legislation associated with improving workers ' rights in Germany took control many of the important details of university life , such as departmental policy and appointments , out of the hands of the heads of departments and transferred them to committees of faculty members at all levels . |
| 27 | If one can find that the things described by particular words have some common characteristic one ought to limit the general words that follow them to things of that genus ( Lambourn v McLellan [ 1903 ] 2 Ch 268 ) . |
| 28 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 29 | They themselves buy new cars and re-sell them to members of the public . |
| 30 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |