Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black politicians , lawyers , surgeons , business executives are in pathetically short supply ; very , very few have managed to overcome the problem of restricted opportunities , and break what Douglas Glasgow , in his discussion of the chronic unemployment of American blacks , calls ‘ the cycle of entrapment ’ — few raise themselves above ‘ cellar-level jobs ’ ( 1980 , p.71 ) . |
| 2 | Some find themselves into formal language while others remain always in the realm of slang . |
| 3 | The central concern of all four of these 1949 conventions is the protection of victims of war , especially victims who in one way or another find themselves in the hands of the adversary . |
| 4 | I have stock with grandparents from pure Dutch-bred sheep bred in Belgium , and Belgian breeders do buy some stock themselves from Holland . ’ |
| 5 | They all jumped back , very frightened , and some hurt themselves by falling off my body . |
| 6 | Headteachers will soon discover that , among their Danish counterparts , ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 7 | Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 8 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 9 | These manifest themselves as the impulsive gravitational waves ( 15.10 ) which may be considered to be generated by the collision . |
| 10 | From the earliest encounters between Europeans and Others right to the present , these manifest themselves in an endless series of speculations , projections , fantasies and crimes in relation to ‘ African ’ and ‘ Oriental ’ women and men ( Gilman , 1985 , 1987 ; Cohen , 1988 ; Open University , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 12 | Good eating habits , plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , and , of course , a reasonable amount of sleep all lend themselves to good health , which in turn will be reflected in a clear skin and bright eyes which are attractive in themselves . |
| 13 | Many find themselves in low-paid part-time employment , with few prospects for real security or advancement . |
| 14 | Too many allow themselves to be steered into what are seen as traditionally female jobs , or suffer discrimination if and when they have children . |
| 15 | Studies reveal that people asked to rate their own abilities on a scale of 1–100 pitch themselves at around the 55 mark . |
| 16 | ‘ Faster go the drums , faster spin the dancers , rush torches show off the paint and the sweat on them — they begin to smash small bottles of some holy liquid and first stab themselves with the broken glass — with no apparent injury , they do not even bleed — and then they eat the glass itself . |
| 17 | " The representatives should as soon as possible furnish themselves with a licence , and they can go to any magistrate at hand without any formality requiring a day 's delay " ( Cook v. Gray ( 1891 ) 29 S.L.R. 249 per Lord President Robertson ) . |
| 18 | It was not until January that EMI at last rid themselves of the Sex Pistols — ‘ in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last two months ’ , as an official statement put it — and at a cost of £50,000 in settlement . |