Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the 1980s , it is increasingly apparent that cities are likely to find themselves very much in the firing line , as a series of radical measures are implemented concerning education , social security and local taxation . |
| 2 | While it appears that both James and Williams agreed that without an ascendant industrial bourgeoisie , the abolitionists ‘ would have preached themselves as black in the face as any Negro ’ . |
| 3 | I find myself very much in the middle , and I have n't decided yet which it will be . |
| 4 | He might not have involved himself too much in the day-to-day running of the club , yet I was never in any doubt as to who made the final decisions . |
| 5 | It seems likely that the Reformation may have contributed to this dramatic rise in prosecutions — which some historians have labelled a ‘ witch-craze ’ — both because the new climate of religious strife led to a general heightening of fears and suspicions , and because without the protective magic of Catholicism , many individuals felt themselves more vulnerable in the face of malevolent forces , and thus more impelled to take action against them . |
| 6 | At the first sign of danger the bittern adopts a rigid , stiffly erect posture , making itself almost invisible in the vegetation around its nest . |