Example sentences of "[verb] themselves with " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 32 | Not surprisingly , most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect , notably that of emotional stress . |
| 33 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 34 | As many as half the New Yorkers who inject themselves with intravenous drugs may carry the AIDS virus ; in the Tacoma and Seattle area only about 10% of the addicts are infected . |
| 35 | Patients are advised to eat regular meals , avoid certain foods , take tablets or inject themselves with insulin , monitor their blood glucose levels , to be careful with alcohol and see their doctors regularly . |
| 36 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 37 | I 'm surprised that the police should trouble themselves with what is surely no more than cheap journalistic spite . |
| 38 | Over 200 species of birds have been seen anointing themselves with these substances . |
| 39 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 40 | Wild fish ‘ accidentally ’ provide themselves with the right mix of fats , vitamins , minerals , proteins and carbohydrates ; our Koi have no such choice . |
| 41 | Because administrators depended on their lord 's favour , they devoted themselves with vigour to Promoting his interests . |
| 42 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 43 | No wonder the police had given Wheeler a roasting about security ; it was amazing they had a piece of altar silver to bless themselves with . |
| 44 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 45 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 46 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 47 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 48 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 49 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 50 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 51 | He recommends policyholders familiarise themselves with the conditions of their cover . |
| 52 | at the commencement of each assignment , familiarise themselves with , and conform to , the client 's health and safety programme at all times and undergo training where necessary . |
| 53 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 54 | They attach themselves with their mouthparts and then release a digestive enzyme secretion which eats into the skin . |
| 55 | But all governments are holier-than-thou in this respect and never publicly associate themselves with them . |
| 56 | Instead of ‘ us and them ’ perceptions of their relationships with their employers , the manual workers would forgo hitherto strong class loyalties , and increasingly associate themselves with middle- class conformity . |
| 57 | In the settings of four aphoristic poems by Istvan Balint for soprano and 14 players — which Kurtag began in 1972 and recently revised — the outside influences declared themselves quite readily , whether they were from East European folk music or Webern : and in this performance , the soprano Adrienne Csengery and Sinfonietta excelled themselves with sudden flashes of colour and bursts of intense virtuosity . |
| 58 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 59 | The men positioned themselves with their guns ready and were straining to see , scanning the length and breadth of the forest gully . |
| 60 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |