Example sentences of "[verb] themselves in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 2 | Writers on architecture such as J. C. Loudon in the 1830s and George Godwin in the 1840s , interest themselves in the houses of the poor ; while in the latter decade not only Dickens but many other novelists are concerned with a variety of living spaces for which the middle class home , rather than the aristocrat 's , sets the standard . |
| 3 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 4 | The Conservatives now have six representatives on the local council , where they are the largest party , and desperately need a victory in North Down on Thursday to establish themselves in the province . |
| 5 | Lomnitz has shown how squatters manipulate social networks to establish themselves in the city ( Lomnitz 1977 ) . |
| 6 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 7 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 8 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 9 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 11 | prohibits the application of nationality requirements even where the persons concerned do not intend to establish themselves in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 13 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 14 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 15 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 16 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 17 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 18 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 19 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 20 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 21 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 22 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 23 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 24 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 25 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 26 | There is nearly unanimous agreement among historians about the significance of the ‘ impossible situation ’ in which the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine found themselves in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries . |
| 27 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 28 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 29 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 30 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |