Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Electrophysiological measures suggest themselves in this context but the problem of artefact , that is , of actual or potential eye movements producing an asymmetry in the EEG record ( Anderson , 1977 ) , would have to be circumvented . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 8 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 9 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 10 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |
| 11 | Markers lend themselves in particular to mixed media sketching and to mixed media artwork for reproduction in print . |
| 12 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 13 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 14 | Social policy planners in particular are perplexed and tie themselves in appalling knots trying to work out equitable ways of dealing with this anomalous creature . |
| 15 | More generally , if we are to incorporate our results into a theory of ordinary language comprehension , we must explicate the relation between experimental task and the ‘ tasks ’ that people set themselves in ordinary reading and listening . |
| 16 | Algae reproduce themselves in two ways — by straightforward asexual division and by the sexual method , of such importance to the progress of evolution , in which the sex cells will only develop if they meet each other and fuse in pairs . |
| 17 | ‘ Such persons commonly live in a dream world , and believe themselves in all they say . |
| 18 | Sensitivities to foods manifest themselves in many different ways . |
| 19 | At various points in this book , we may be able to discern how changes in attitudes of curriculum planners to the purpose of the primary school manifest themselves in new ideas about languages of instruction , a new urgency in finding out about community needs , an increased commitment to the concept of basic education . |
| 20 | But if you were looking at their egos as well , er their whole personality had its defence disrupted , then of course , you may be able to see a bit more , because you are now looking at areas which are co both conscious and manifest themselves in all kinds of different ways . |
| 21 | Science seeks to discover the operation of general laws which , by their nature , always manifest themselves in certain situations . |
| 22 | For example , it can be argued that between the orally produced blues of the solitary rural Southern black and the equally orally produced collective ‘ gospel song ’ of black Southern churches there are some rather crucial sociological differences , which typically manifest themselves in clear musical contrasts ( secular/religious ; personal/group ; solo/choral ; rhapsodic/iterative ; free rhythm/ strong pulse ; and so on ) . |
| 23 | The politics of marginalisation are essential in the smooth operating of a set of social and economic policies intended to reform radically a welfare state , maintain unemployment and to deal with the consequences that therefore manifest themselves in social problems such as public disorder , addictions , inner city riots and rebellious fractions of communities . |
| 24 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 25 | The police have praised Parveen for her courage , but they 're not recommending that women who find themselves in similar situations react in the same way . |
| 26 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 27 | As well as the growth in the number of low-paid jobs , a significant group of flexible workers find themselves in great demand , and consequently gain high salaries . |
| 28 | Many find themselves in low-paid part-time employment , with few prospects for real security or advancement . |
| 29 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 30 | As two likeable gangsters running away from a vicious killer and the crack-selling Triads , Coltrane and Idle hide in a convent , where , inevitably , they find themselves in 101 dodgy situations . |