Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 2 | However , as EC businesses restructure themselves in preparation for the single market and as previously protected industrial sectors are open to competition for the first time , takeover activity is one means by which new corporate entities can be created and structured on a pan-European basis . |
| 3 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 4 | They ensure , for example , that meals are eaten at the right time , that appointments are kept , that a daily routine is adhered to and that patients do not neglect themselves or put themselves in danger . |
| 5 | FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM don the wide brimmed hats and cover themselves in flour for two nights of doom laden entertainment at London 's Town & Country Club on March 29 and 30 . |
| 6 | State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Others , such as the caterpillars of the hawk-moth , bury themselves in soil before turning into chrysalids . |
| 8 | Chamois drench themselves in perfume by shaking their bodies as they urinate , and camels use their tails to whisk their urine into an odorous shower . |
| 9 | Many students tie themselves in knots in only four bars , and can then go no further because they have concentrated on complex harmonizations and ignored the thematic flow . |
| 10 | Successful learning often takes place when young children enjoy themselves in role-playing , which can make an important contribution to their oral and aural experience . |
| 11 | Along this fiery path and valley , the tossing waves by which the swell of the sea is restlessly divided , lift themselves in dark , indefinite , fantastic forms , each casting a faint and ghastly shadow behind it along the illumined foam … |
| 12 | The concept of ideology' , though not made clear , is in fact of crucial significance in Pareto 's discussion of how elites maintain themselves in power . |
| 13 | There are important developments on Pareto 's analysis in that Mosca identifies in a more concrete and specific manner how it is that elites arise , maintain themselves in power and are replaced . |
| 14 | Erm , I think Chair , it , there is a need obviously for all committees to be realistic , and erm , that certainly is our intention within those , but I would say again , it leads me to believe that you should keep a reasonable er , committee contingency in case certain difficulties present themselves in terms of those additional er , pressures and requirements . |
| 15 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 16 | In organisations like the WEA particularly , because of its grass roots and more democratic base , women have been able to take more control of their own learning and become their own teachers and organise themselves in ways which are less controlled by patriarchal infiltration . |
| 17 | They constantly get themselves in debt . " |
| 18 | And they get themselves in situations do n't they , inexperienced drivers ? |
| 19 | At another , the women wrap themselves in blankets and line up pitifully like a group of refugees . |
| 20 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 21 | But , as Hook has pointed out ( see Matza , 1964 , pp. 10–11 ) , in practice the two positions are virtually identical : both ‘ free choice ’ and ‘ unknown causes ’ manifest themselves in unpredictability . |
| 22 | In fact , however , the dialectical interplay of the two means that real productive forces only manifest themselves in forms dictated by real social relations . |
| 23 | And I hope to run through today , basically , a set of examples of specific infective positions which show particular virulence factors er manifest themselves in terms of clinical disease . |
| 24 | The libertarians , in common with the ideologists of the left , whose tactics they often self-consciously copy , frequently find themselves in conflict with their own party , which they claim is insufficiently ideological ( Durham , 1985 ; Gamble , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Younger women , on reaching 30 , often find themselves in conflict over whether to marry , have children , or combine motherhood with a career . |
| 26 | In many cases people with equipment and experience suitable for gentler slopes lose their way and find themselves in areas with gradients and conditions which they are unable to handle . |
| 27 | It contains an extraordinary collection , beautifully presented , and any hon. Members who find themselves in Carlisle would do well to spend a few hours there . |
| 28 | People are what they are , but some acts are good , others bad , and legislators , reformers and ‘ moralists ’ should aim at organizing society so that human beings as they really are find themselves in circumstances where they tend to do the former . |
| 29 | Social security benefits are intended to assist those people who , for whatever reason , find themselves in circumstances where they are unable to support themselves and those circumstances could not reasonably be avoided . |
| 30 | The book will examine the industrial changes that influenced the separate development of ‘ company men ’ in America , Europe and Asia — men who now find themselves in competition with each other . |