Example sentences of "themselves in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in Italy , where the Communist Party also split , the reformers outnumbered the old guard , in Spain the reformers found themselves in a minority . |
| 2 | But the thing is , what they do tend to do is , they suddenly find themselves in a panic because they 've behaved like this about it and the person at the other end is shouting when are you coming to see this organ |
| 3 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 4 | So the consortium that was doing the development arranged the work between themselves in a way which they themselves considered to be efficient . |
| 5 | However wise and fairminded we are , anyone can suddenly find themselves in a fight for which they 've never bargained . |
| 6 | In short , women claimants would find themselves in a system that assumes they are alienated workers rather than — as the present system assumes — scrounging mistresses or ‘ walking wombs ’ . |
| 7 | With their album completed and , due to legal problems , on ice , The Smiths found themselves in a state of dangerous inactivity . |
| 8 | The tension on the border encouraged both sides to maintain themselves in a state of armed readiness and this made conflict even more likely . |
| 9 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
| 10 | Once it was recognized that animals orient themselves in a variety of ways , the engineering approach was extremely successful in identifying the underlying mechanisms . |
| 11 | There are numerous pressures on them which manifest themselves in a variety of ways within the classroom setting . |
| 12 | They got themselves in a mess by losing millions on loans to foreign countries and dubious borrowers at home . |
| 13 | In this instance , a second Bill has had to be presented , and most people in the education system have found themselves in a mess in the intervening three years . |
| 14 | Soon , however , they found themselves in a nightmare situation for although they were walking towards the train they seemed to get no nearer to it . |
| 15 | Billeting allowances were available to cover the cost of hosting an evacuee ( for unaccompanied children , 10s 6d per week for the first child , 8s 6d each for subsequent children ) and billeting officers had powers of compulsion to utilise appropriate accommodation , but most , being from the locality themselves , preferred to ruffle as few feathers as possible — with the result that on arrival many evacuees found themselves in a scene ‘ reminiscent of a cross between an early Roman slave market and Selfridge 's bargain basement ’ , as one witness put it . |
| 16 | Consequently , such marketing boards have frequently found themselves in a price squeeze , unable to offer a price high enough to producers , but only able to sell to consumers at a loss . |
| 17 | Pending the departure of the Birkenhead train they bestow themselves in a waiting room set apart , or roam the platforms . |
| 18 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |
| 19 | Critics of the concept suggest that Yuppies are the figment of the imagination of media , agency and marketing people , looking at themselves in a mirror in their expensive homes in the capital city . |
| 20 | ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many intending emigrants cheerfully imagine that once they have settled themselves in a dream villa overseas , they are safely out of the clutches of the UK taxman . |
| 23 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 24 | She 's got a couple of chums who look like they can handle themselves in a scrap . |
| 25 | ‘ People begin to doubt themselves in a run like we have experienced . |
| 26 | ‘ People begin to doubt themselves in a run like we have experienced . |
| 27 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 28 | The ad says that ‘ many emigres have found themselves in a position to assist the FBI in its counterintelligence mission ’ . |
| 29 | Officers would perform excellent service if they could put themselves in a position to receive information which could be translated into proceedings before a jury . |
| 30 | 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 . |