Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.

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1 A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ .
2 The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter .
3 William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park .
4 She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household .
5 Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony .
6 There was no resistance from government forces , most of whom had already allied themselves with Masud .
7 The officer had quickly positioned herself with one foot on either side of Madeleine 's head , and was crouched down over her face .
8 A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her .
9 has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall .
10 By June 6 the FLN secretary-general Abdelhamid Mehri and the leader of the Islamic Hamas party , Shaikh Mahfoud Nahnah , had also aligned themselves with this broad platform , which rejected affiliation to the proposed Patriotic Rally .
11 Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart .
12 Apart from helping her , I have also helped myself with a domestic who is more efficient and devoted because her mind is free of family problems ’ .
13 The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big .
14 He had nearly saddled himself with a desperate , thirty-one-year-old fan .
15 It did n't occur to Lowell to wonder how he had also familiarised himself with drugs .
16 By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others .
17 Palace courtiers often aligned themselves with one or other marriage partner and that would stir up trouble between them .
18 The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces .
19 Most of the Moscow think-tanks have now aligned themselves with Mr Yeltsin .
20 It has now aligned itself with Chorus Systemes SA , the French microkernel company partially owned by SVR4 proponent Unix System Laboratories .
21 This clearly symbolised Russia 's new strength and the international position to which she had now raised herself with spectacular speed .
22 Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set .
23 In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job .
24 But Borssele has not simply contented herself with the odd leak .
25 The government of the GDR has expressly associated itself with this statement …
26 A primary group , with a leader , but with little other ‘ organization ’ in it , can therefore be said to be ‘ a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego ’ .
27 A primary group of this kind is a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego .
28 Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world .
29 Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 .
30 ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’
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