Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 3 | But how do rational agents put themselves in a position of being able to anticipate changes in the money stock ? |
| 4 | advice is taking people off , with , in the knowledge that they will not necessarily , er , er , er put themselves in a straight-jacket . |
| 5 | Pending the departure of the Birkenhead train they bestow themselves in a waiting room set apart , or roam the platforms . |
| 6 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 7 | The pupils seat themselves in a square representing the doctor 's office . |
| 8 | The men amongst the ultra-religious Chasidim immerse themselves in a mikva before the onset of the sabbath in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 9 | In a thoughtful exploration of the relevance of Caplan 's crisis theory ( 1961 ) for social work practice , O'Hagan proposed that the chaotic situations which frequently present themselves in a social service department require a different understanding of the nature of a crisis and the part played by a social worker in resolving it . |
| 10 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet . |
| 12 | The forces produced in the individual on such occasions , in what Jung ( 1964 ) calls a ‘ journey to individuation ’ , manifest themselves in a number of very persuasive ways and in this case led to some radical reassessments of the existing moral , philosophic , political , and aesthetic order . |
| 13 | As far as human awareness is concerned , the two impulses manifest themselves in a strict relation : only so much Dionysiac experience is permitted to the individual consciousness as can be controlled by the Apolline and translated into its life-sustaining terms . |
| 14 | There are numerous pressures on them which manifest themselves in a variety of ways within the classroom setting . |
| 15 | Weakened by the separation from their families , suffering often the loss of mother , sisters and close friends , these Asian women find themselves in a strange unknown society . |
| 16 | Christian theologians , lacking this differentiation , find themselves in a predicament . |
| 17 | When this happens , cells do things they would not otherwise have done , presumably because , after amputation , they find themselves in a changed environment . |
| 18 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 19 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 20 | Communication draws to a standstill when a couple find themselves in a ‘ lip-lock ’ . |
| 21 | However the situation is potentially lethal to fish , who find themselves in a similar situation to those human divers experiencing the bends ! |
| 22 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 23 | And she did not do what hedgehogs usually do when they find themselves in a bit of trouble : curl up in a tight , prickly ball . |
| 24 | IF THEY find themselves in a tangle at an anti-social hour , the United Nations men now taking over in Somalia will at least have the chance of talking it over with their masters in New York — as well as with their unofficial masters in Washington . |
| 25 | Concern was also expressed about the lack of rights for trainees — they often find themselves in a vulnerable situation . |
| 26 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 27 | Ministers can experience difficulty when they find themselves in a situation where refusing the baptism is their only option and parents can take grave offence . |
| 28 | Hospitals provide emergency ‘ asylum ’ care for vulnerable people who find themselves in a personal emotional crisis and need to escape from a distressing family situation . |
| 29 | With political change , the established constitutional authorities find themselves in a situation where they are forced to come to terms with new and emerging patterns of political power and practice that are outside ( but pressing in on ) the established constitution that is supposedly made sense of through their theories . |
| 30 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |