Example sentences of "establish themselves [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 2 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 3 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 4 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 5 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 6 | The Conservatives now have six representatives on the local council , where they are the largest party , and desperately need a victory in North Down on Thursday to establish themselves in the province . |
| 7 | Lomnitz has shown how squatters manipulate social networks to establish themselves in the city ( Lomnitz 1977 ) . |
| 8 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |
| 9 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 10 | To further extend the stage , they established themselves alongside the fuller 's house where the broad stone steps of an outside staircase climbed the side of the building to a loft door — a ready-made Hill of Heaven . |
| 11 | They established themselves in the south-west , and their king , Athaulf , held court in Narbonne . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Europe has its fair share of such operators but the king of them is the Coventry based Atlantic Group who have established themselves under the banner International Task Force . |
| 14 | The growth in academic social gerontology has , however , been a much more recent phenomenon and it is only with this development that several important historical issues relating to old age in the present century have established themselves on the agenda for research . |
| 15 | The powerful position in which the landed gentry had established themselves on the Commission of the Peace served to deal with the obviously unacceptable infringements of the law , provided that wrongdoers could be apprehended . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the third century a new name appeared in Roman records , though the people to whom it was applied had established themselves in the country much earlier . |
| 17 | While interactive systems have certainly established themselves in the training armoury , there is by no means an overwhelming move towards their increasing use based on their performance to date . |