Example sentences of "themselves to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , you are someone who restricts themselves to using commonality tactics , you may end up as a martyr . |
| 2 | Another forecast is that companies which have committed themselves to supplying multiple retailers — which is still being publicly advanced as the correct structural direction for the beef industry to take — could find themselves at a permanent disadvantage . |
| 3 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 4 | But both Mr Major and the recently appointed Irish Prime Minister , Albert Reynolds , have actively committed themselves to moving the Ulster problem forward . |
| 5 | Walls built to support terraces , used as boundaries , forming part of a flight of steps , containing raised beds and so on , whether brick or stone , lend themselves to planting actually in their fabric . |
| 6 | I thought that if FAKINTIL were confining themselves to bringing the mast down , then they would be just escaping now , shooting their way out of town . |
| 7 | Members are again advised that when they are consulted by a client who requires legal aid for the purpose of proceedings in the English courts , they should ( subject to the above observations about legal advice and assistance on English matters ) confine themselves to assisting the client to complete the English form of application ( the Central Committee hold a supply of these ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , the whole exercise is circular , since ‘ most banks would wish to review the audited accounts before committing themselves to renewing on demand facilities ’ . |
| 9 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 10 | Both sides also committed themselves to achieving free trade in services and to beginning work on the harmonization of business , competition , securities and investment law . |
| 11 | They will be less available than previously to sit on appointment panels and may have to limit themselves to advising on senior posts only . |
| 12 | It recommended , in brief , that council members confine themselves to debating broad issues of social policy , leaving the professionals responsible for the detailed execution ; that there should be fewer committees and a management board of about seven council members supported by a corresponding group of chief officers to make most policy decisions on a corporate basis . |
| 13 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 14 | If more people confined themselves to dealing with facts then life would be a whole lot simpler . ’ |
| 15 | This may be a simple oversight on the part of the authors of the pamphlet , or it may reflect the thought that since those who attend these colleges would have committed themselves to staying at them until they were 18 ( and such a commitment would be a condition of entry ) , there would be no need for them to take a ‘ school-leaving ’ examination at 16+ . |
| 16 | To be fair , engineers are also impressed by the idea of harnessing the purifying capabilities of nature in this way , largely confining themselves to pointing out the real-world constraints on the wilder flights of fancy . |
| 17 | Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform . |
| 18 | This is particularly well illustrated in the case of old men who devote themselves to providing near total care for ailing wives , many having gone through marriage with little domestic involvement . |
| 19 | So they devoted themselves to promoting political movements which they could imagine would still reach the Milnerian goal . |
| 20 | The young people , who will walk from the City Hall to arrive at Cornmarket at 7.30pm , have dedicated themselves to promoting a non-violent solution . |
| 21 | In theory , the Ministry of Education welcomed schools which it did not have to pay for and in which the instructors — student volunteers — confined themselves to teaching adult illiterates how to read and write . |
| 22 | ‘ With the unexpected accession of their parents to the throne , ’ said the voice from the television , with that odd blend of reverence and condescension reserved for royalty and its doings , ‘ the little princesses had to reconcile themselves to seeing less and less of their mother and father . |
| 23 | Not just Russia , but all the major European countries , committed themselves to banning non-Turkish warships from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles when the Ottoman Empire was at peace . |
| 24 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 25 | On Nov. 27 , following direct talks brokered by the UN , dos Santos and Savimbi issued the " Namibie Declaration " in which they committed themselves to accepting the Bicesse Peace Accord and implementing a ceasefire , and to a continuing UN presence in the country . |
| 26 | Michael Coogan of the Building Societies Association Legal Department says : ‘ The Government wants mortgage lenders to emphasise to borrowers that they think carefully before committing themselves to taking out a loan . ’ |
| 27 | First , I hope that my hon. Friends will commit themselves to referring every one of these privatised monopolies to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission during our first period of Government . |
| 28 | For four years he led beaver-trapping expeditions along the Snake with increasing success , while the Nez Perce warriors confined themselves to fleecing the less provident of Mackenzie 's Iroquois henchmen . |
| 29 | These can be used as cut and sew but because they are softer they will also lend themselves to shaping into familiar garments , say blouson sweaters , jackets and so on . |
| 30 | Many foreign brands have established themselves in the former Soviet Union for the sake of the publicity , but Baskin-Robbins becomes one of the few to commit themselves to manufacturing there . |