Example sentences of "[verb] themselves in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education commission reports past and present have always addressed themselves in varying degrees of rigour to the analysis of educational objectives and it would be possible to collect an impressive dossier of high minded statements of intent . |
| 2 | Human beings form economic relations of many kinds with one another , involve themselves in political relationships or religious ones , live within many kinds of groups , and so on . |
| 3 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 4 | Clearly , there are real problems in equating society' or ‘ community ’ wholly with the limited , if very important , interactions in which people involve themselves in particular localities . |
| 5 | Ten or twelve different gods are embodied now , and they are all amusing themselves in different ways . |
| 6 | Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard , landing themselves in serious trouble . |
| 7 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 8 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 9 | At the same time , different peoples , sometimes referred to as barbarians , began to establish themselves in different parts of Europe and evolve their own culture , sometimes Christian , sometimes not , but the former was not necessarily more civilised than the latter . |
| 10 | And predictably , McDonald and wife Juliet , who had also been present at the birth of the label , found themselves in financial trouble . |
| 11 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 12 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 13 | When broadcasters were promoted they found themselves in administrative posts : talented people were rewarded with jobs which meant that they broadcast no longer . |
| 14 | Inevitably , many of the young men Crawford had been engaged at great expense to coach found themselves in khaki instead of cricket whites . |
| 15 | Once the prisoners had arrived , the dead found themselves in perpetual company . |
| 16 | Many landlords found themselves in economic difficulties , and there was widespread impoverishment of tenants and small farmers . |
| 17 | Recently the junior staff at Southmead Hospital in Bristol found themselves in bitter dispute with the hospital management over the terms and conditions of their employment . |
| 18 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 19 | Only sometimes in dreams the terrible days of the siege , which were like the dark foundation of the civilized life they had returned to , would return years later to visit them : then they would awake , terrified and sweating , to find themselves in white starched linen , in a comfortable bed , in peaceful England . |
| 20 | Many of the Socialist ‘ heavyweights ’ , such as Michel Rocard ( the official Socialist presidential candidate ) , Pierre Beregovoy ( the outgoing prime minister ) , Jack Lang ( outgoing culture and education minister ) and Roland Dumas ( outgoing foreign minister ) , are likely to find themselves in severe difficulties in the second round of voting next Sunday . |
| 21 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 22 | The grubs and beetles try to hide themselves in secret places where none shall see them , but nevertheless there are many which are swallowed whole in one swift plunge and gobble . |
| 23 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 24 | Yes , but ticky boxes , and expressing themselves in other |
| 25 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 26 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 27 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 28 | Hrun 's eyebrows twisted themselves in unaccustomed calculation . |
| 29 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 30 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |