Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would , I know , be the first to agree that , if the critics base themselves on fact and eschew the attractions of hindsight , such criticism is valuable . |
| 2 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 3 | In addition , public enterprises also lend themselves to tasks that have more to do with political legitimation than with the needs of the economic system , and which increase the contradictory pressures on them . |
| 4 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 5 | At another , the women wrap themselves in blankets and line up pitifully like a group of refugees . |
| 6 | That way chaos lies , but the Window are aware that the best tension is created from a structure being stretched and shattered , so they rein themselves into songs and mess that way . |
| 7 | Planes lose themselves in fog and drop out of the sky into city centres . |
| 8 | Women would chain themselves to railings , throw themselves under horses and do a dozen other crazy things in the cause of suffragettism . |