Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] themselves to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 2 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 3 | This brings the UK into line with the Danish , Dutch and Swedish authorities , who have already committed themselves to preserving Decca at least until the end of this century , while the positions of Ireland and Norway have not yet been declared . |
| 4 | I shall attempt to establish the general outlines of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy by examining in detail the work of some writers who have explicitly addressed themselves to questions of literacy and its cognitive consequences . |
| 5 | The Foundation 's Annual Report for 1946 outlined its policy on the aged poor : ‘ As machines replace muscles as the motive force , the possibilities of extending useful employment could bring new purpose and new hope to those who have reluctantly accustomed themselves to being a burden ’ ( p. 47 ) In that year the Foundation founded the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing , at the University of Cambridge , with the purpose of studying ‘ those changes of human performance in middle and old age likely to have a bearing upon capacity for work in industry ’ ( Nuffield Foundation 1953b : 160 ) , a ten-year project . |