Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must apply ourselves right to the end of games . ’ |
| 2 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 3 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 4 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 5 | Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ? |
| 6 | There were areas in the Carpathians , in the Balkans , in the western marches of Russia , in Scandinavia and Spain — to confine ourselves only to the most developed continent — where the world economy , and hence the rest of the modern world , material or mental , meant little enough . |
| 7 | In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer |
| 8 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 9 | In this section we shall confine ourselves mainly to inorganic nomenclature and leave a more systematic treatment of organic nomenclature until chapter 17 . |
| 10 | There is another , more subtle effect of exercise which is to be gained from pushing ourselves periodically to the limits of our endurance , and beyond . |
| 11 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 12 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 13 | We will confine ourselves here to mentioning just four of the works on display . |
| 14 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 15 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 16 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 17 | Turning now to the views of professional employees on taxation , we confine ourselves again to British studies . |
| 18 | And by limiting ourselves specifically to stylistic alternatives , we can pinpoint the inferences from the text which are the basis of literary appreciation . |
| 19 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 20 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 21 | Edward , however , was still reluctant to commit himself wholeheartedly to Balliol 's cause . |
| 22 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 23 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 24 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 25 | The goalkeeper was also required to throw himself acrobatically to his left-hand post when a header from Ferguson off a Robertson freekick once again underlined his threat . |
| 26 | He took himself furiously to an inn , had breakfast there and reserved a room for the night ; it was too expensive for him to stay long . |
| 27 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 28 | But whereas Roosevelt and Churchill hoped that ‘ friendly ’ policies could be guaranteed through liberal-democratic regimes , Stalin , with bitter memories of Western policy in eastern Europe between the wars , was willing to trust himself only to Communist-led governments . |
| 29 | ‘ You and Miss Smith can go now , McGee , ’ said Wheeler curtly , addressing himself only to McGee . |
| 30 | He did not restrict himself merely to giving his assent to publication , but added his comments , as , for example , on Two Treatises … concerning Infant Baptism ( 1645 ) by John Tombes [ q.v. ] , where he acknowledged that the author was a godly man ‘ and of the Presbyterian judgement , though I am not of opinion with him ’ and he agreed to the publication of these treatises to encourage further contributions to the debate on infant baptism . |