Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry .
2 So we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs .
3 Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ .
4 Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding .
5 We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group .
6 ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head .
7 Derek and I will organize ourselves about the transcription machine and
8 And that 's all right ; but let's not deceive ourselves about the artifice involved .
9 Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s .
10 Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available .
11 Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August .
12 We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo .
13 ‘ For you know , we are obliged to try to amuse ourselves during the hunt . ’
14 WE are going to stop apologising to ourselves for the fact that it takes money to run this organisation .
15 In the West , we search outside ourselves for the source of inspiration , creation and truth .
16 We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries .
17 We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then .
18 It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is .
19 Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1
20 Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing .
21 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
22 A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch .
23 Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks .
24 We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England .
25 Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship .
26 ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there .
27 ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’
28 ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel .
29 The other is ourselves as the stranger .
30 We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority .
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