Example sentences of "[vb infin] themselves in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these qualities they well be fully prepared for the big trial , but they must also know themselves in the deepest sense — ‘ to be in touch ’ , as Scott frequently mentions , ‘ with that critical inner voice . ’ |
| 2 | People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all . |
| 3 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 4 | Newspapers , therefore , are the media through which political parties can establish and/or sustain themselves in the minds of the public . |
| 5 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 6 | Whatever promises of anonymity are given , the people involved will recognize themselves in the characters portrayed , and this may cause difficulties . |
| 7 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 8 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 9 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 10 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 11 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 12 | These could supervene powerfully in the individual personality — as they evidently did in that of Akhenaten — but , more frequently perhaps , these psychopathological tendencies could manifest themselves in the culture of the agricultural society , perhaps as fire-festivals ( with attendant witch-delusions ) or as full-blown cults of solar-imperial megalomania . |
| 13 | Most advocates of biological theories do not express themselves in the same bizarre language and style as Lombroso , and such theories of crime are not merely historical relics that died with Lombroso . |
| 14 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 15 | If mink escaped they could readily establish themselves in the wild , with serious implications for the indigenous wildlife : particularly at risk would be large colonies of ground-nesting seabirds , such as terns , puffins and black guillemots . |
| 16 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 17 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , in the course of talking and pretending , the sovereign states can harm themselves in the real exercise of real power . |
| 19 | I know there is a theory that great qualities will always reveal themselves in the end . |
| 20 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 21 | Once again , the marketing mentality permeates these specialist services for they need to understand marketing principles and concepts even if they do not directly involve themselves in the data and planning . |
| 22 | More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services . |
| 23 | The records management staff could no longer only involve themselves in the review of paper records they should also safeguard electronic records from inappropriate destruction . |
| 24 | The jury must place themselves in the accused 's position with the accused 's knowledge . |
| 25 | This might then account for the apparently non-environmentally controlled distribution pattern in which other species could insinuate themselves in the holes of the forest ‘ lattice ’ devoid of the first species . |
| 26 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 27 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 28 | If such a proposal was adopted by the GMC Kay and his committee might find themselves in the dock . |
| 29 | Planned tours aside , it 's just possible that all of the Brennan family could soon find themselves in the charts . |
| 30 | That 's quite ludicrous , why should they shoot themselves in the foot and is Mr seriously suggesting the same thing ? |