Example sentences of "themselves [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Like other Ministers , Chancellors do not confine themselves solely to matters where they have a departmental interest . |
| 32 | Some devoted themselves solely to classification , although others became interested in geographical problems and in the relationship between species and their environments . |
| 33 | Black sportsmen presented me with vivid examples running counter to the stereotypical black youth and , as such , they lent themselves perfectly to my general purposes , for I am hopefully in the process of shattering some of the popular images of blacks . |
| 34 | Even before the advent of the Russians some Yakuts had established themselves far to the north on the river Yana , where the Russian fort of Verkhoyansk was founded . |
| 35 | This has its merits and has been the practice in Sweden , but it is of value only if the central government departments then restrict themselves purely to planning , thinking and regulating . |
| 36 | After a stagnant half-hour the game sparked into life and Thistle quickly found themselves behind to a Kirk shot from a Davie Cooper cross , and a fine Paul McGrillen strike after magnificent work by Phil O'Donnell on the left . |
| 37 | Nor is it ‘ negative ’ to raise doubts about whether Mr Kinnock and his team would confine themselves even to these immodest proposals . |
| 38 | It was the duty of merchants and craftsmen to trade honestly with one another , of husbandmen and artificers to apply themselves diligently to their labours and take pleasure in them , eschewing ostentation as well as hunting and hawking , which were the privileges of the gentry , nor wasting their time and substance in alehouses or playing unlawful games . |
| 39 | And here too , are ten Munros , lending themselves admirably to a complete traverse from end to end in one of the finest of all mountain expeditions but one needing the expertise of experience . |
| 40 | Any artist 's choice of media is often a practical one ; when working outside , it is difficult to manage large-scale work , and gouache or oil lend themselves well to the immediacy and vibrancy of an outdoor setting . |
| 41 | The beautifully rich tones of this picture lend themselves well to a ruby wedding anniversary . |
| 42 | Court applications lend themselves well to this format . |
| 43 | These rocks , called dacites , are often so viscous that they scarcely flow at all , and merely heave themselves sluggishly to the surface to form an irregularly flat-topped mound over the vent . |
| 44 | The first three chapters of The Form address themselves chiefly to the solitary religious , pointing the contrast between the reality of inward holiness and the outward appearances — " habett of halyness " ( 3.94.39 ) — a term which seems to cover not just the clothing but the outward practices of piety , fasting and abstinence . |
| 45 | The idea that adopters would be unable to commit themselves fully to a child without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ may seem abhorrent to some . |
| 46 | Those who only ‘ play ’ at astrology are protected to a certain degree by their own reluctance to give themselves fully to it . |
| 47 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 48 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 49 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |
| 50 | Most begin by asserting their commitment to democracy , yet few would commit themselves completely to the notion that if the people want to wallow in sin , they should be permitted to do so . |
| 51 | As we overtook them , they revealed themselves instead to be German tourists . |
| 52 | Most of them abandoned their former preoccupations and devoted themselves instead to less controversial types of literary study , such as text exegesis ( Eikhenbaum and Boris Tomashevsky ) . |
| 53 | His son , Guardsman George , freely admits that the Fawcetts helped themselves judiciously to the region 's edible game . |
| 54 | The Republican governments of the 1920s allied themselves firmly to big business , and gained political credit from this prosperity . |
| 55 | The Marxists never quite reconciled themselves either to the policies , the leadership or the tactics of the Labour Party . |
| 56 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |
| 57 | Everyone pressed themselves flat to the floor as the heavier-calibre bullets smashed a spray of rock chips and dust across the floor . |
| 58 | They pay scant attention to the historical backdrop , addressing themselves essentially to the figure of Jesus and his teaching . |
| 59 | One of the reasons for working particularly with correlations is that those of low order lend themselves satisfactorily to physical interpretation , in ways to be discussed in Section 19.4 . |
| 60 | While pledging themselves publicly to legislation , they worked privately to block many of the attempts to secure new acts and statutes . |