Example sentences of "establish themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit .
2 The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force .
3 The opening in time for August Bank Holiday Monday , possibly the busiest day of the year for Darlington shops , would give businesses the chance to establish themselves before the pre-Christmas onslaught in mid October .
4 These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential .
5 The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades .
6 It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry .
7 However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently .
8 But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives .
9 But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives .
10 A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie .
11 Again , beautifully rounded characters which established themselves at a leisurely pace are the secret of its appeal .
12 The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached .
13 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 .
14 From Eddie Murphy to Richard Pryor , black American comedians have established themselves in the comic maintstream .
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