Example sentences of "establish [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular .
2 When the door to the Scotland team opened in Paris earlier this season , the Bonnyrigg blacksmith seized the opportunity and went on to establish himself with further caps against Wales and England .
3 The Belgian Government argued in that connection that the limits of articles 52 and 59 were plain : they dealt only with the freedom of any Community national to establish himself in another member state and provide services there while retaining his own nationality .
4 To be fished on the prolific waters around Galway this new event promises to establish itself as one of Ireland 's best .
5 It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe .
6 And besides , Women 's Word had worked very hard to establish themselves as serious publishers .
7 Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’
12 With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be .
13 He is also establishing himself as one of the best goalkeepers in English football .
14 FORMER jump jockey Micky Hammond is steadily establishing himself as one of the top dual purpose trainers in the North .
15 However , where a company establishes itself in another member state all the rules of that member state which Apply to its own nationals apply equally to that company .
16 The month after he was disciplined , Fleck left Rangers for Norwich City and immediately established himself as one of the most exciting and prolific goal scorers in the English First Division .
17 By the end of the first decade of the 19th century , he had become quite prosperous and eventually established himself in one of the old Bradley furnaces , building Bradley House around 1817 .
18 Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them .
19 From the tenth and eleventh centuries , as the church established itself in northern Spain , the French seized the opportunity and set up monastic centres in the region under the Cluniac Order .
20 As the FMLN opened up war fronts and established itself in several areas of the country , many medical students and health workers joined the liberation army and worked with the communities to set up their own alternative health system .
21 Mrs Theresa Murphy , the Mayor 's wife , had , by dint of playing first violin in the local amateur orchestra , established herself as one of the cultural leaders of Tollemarche .
22 Some of these , for example the popular fronts in the republics , established themselves as significant features of the political scene .
23 Elizabeth Carter and Constantia Grierson established themselves as classical scholars .
24 It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts .
25 Lastly , the United Kingdom argued that , if any national of a member state could establish himself in another member state and , without more , exercise the same right to fish as that enjoyed by the nationals of that latter member state , it would not only be the quota system which would be undermined .
26 Nevertheless , except in one regard , the Industrial and Provident Societies Act of 1852 provided the basis on which co-operative societies of whatever kind could establish themselves as corporate entities .
27 They might establish themselves in some suitable centre of social life for a while , as that Latin-American family did which the Paris Guide of 1867 records as arriving with eighteen wagons of baggage .
28 Q. How did you establish yourselves in such a demanding market ?
29 Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings .
30 Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world .
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