Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves the " in BNC.

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1 If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification .
2 Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ .
3 We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it .
4 The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it .
5 Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation .
6 ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’
7 Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine .
8 Granting ourselves the time to speculate and dream of a world to come gives us a chance to prepare for and adapt to a future way of life .
9 We will set ourselves the objective of increasing the degree of consonance still further , and therefore the bass will be kept consonant with all upper parts : Though the effect of this is quite good , indeed smooth and sonorous , the concept of using a bass consonant with all upper parts has produced chords which are either diminished 7ths ( chord 1 ) or contain major or minor chords .
10 We structure the data into simplified snapshots , attributes , traits and types , and attempt to give ourselves the understanding we need and to predict the behaviour of others from this process .
11 ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said .
12 In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not .
13 We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence .
14 But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission .
15 But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ .
16 The further along the spectrum we find ourselves the more we need knowledge and wisdom to be able to handle the results .
17 To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation :
18 To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation :
19 Rather than elevating the rights of the fetus to the exclusion of all the other factors , we have set ourselves the primary task of helping other women who face the dilemma of unwanted childbearing .
20 We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason .
21 Our idea was that we should call ourselves The All Stars .
22 How we re serve our members , communicate with our members and ask ourselves the question , do we give them what they want ?
23 We decided to call ourselves the Friends of John McCarthy because that 's what we were .
24 Should n't we learn to love ourselves the way we are ?
25 Somehow we bought her a , bought ourselves the wrong ones .
26 ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority .
27 But I find it hard to accept that all our land should be so buttoned up , and that we should allow ourselves the arrogant and indulgent belief — against every lesson in history — that we can run things better than nature .
28 We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’
29 We can allow ourselves the luxury of such an extravagant theory , provided that the odds against this coincidence occurring on a planet do not exceed 100 billion billion to one .
30 When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it .
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