Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge amount of political and industrial restructuring will have to take place as the east European states shake themselves down into the national structures that most suit their individual aspirations . |
| 2 | ‘ No one can conceive of a revolutionary party saying that it will let enterprises or economic sectors manage themselves , ’ he says . |
| 3 | ad hoc as external courses in specific subjects present themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures . |
| 6 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 7 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 8 | According to General Accident , about 50,000 drivers find themselves stranded on the autobahn every year . |
| 9 | Some animals protect themselves against being eaten by containing poisonous or sickening substances . |
| 10 | This condition is met wherever there is value in people being able to express themselves in the way they choose , at least where acceptable alternatives present themselves . |
| 11 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 12 | No longer does this boulevard of broken dreams promote itself as a purveyor of gimcrack theatrical glamour . |
| 13 | However self-critical you may be — and some executives set themselves standards of achievement which are unrealistically high , rather than too low — there is usually much to be gained from learning the views of others about your capabilities . |
| 14 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 15 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 16 | Suddenly , these would-be commercial recyclers find themselves swamped with offers of free material from Germany . |
| 17 | Perhaps the cooler attitude and the rigours of endless hours of practice are the reasons why so many top players find themselves in extended slumps and periods of burn out . |
| 18 | Into our own time , many architectural historians confine themselves to that subject ; it has moreover continued to have a nostalgic appeal to novelists . |
| 19 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 20 | Every Easter , a number of brave Filipino men allow themselves to be crucified — with real nails driven through their palms — in an attestation of their faith . |
| 21 | But some anurans defend themselves in a more active way . |
| 22 | Pruger ( 1973 ) and Uttley ( 1980 ) argued that those who receive free services perceive themselves to be in debt in two senses : |
| 23 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 24 | Some women feel themselves driven out of the house , unable to tolerate sharing space with a partner so palpably ill-at-ease with her tears . |
| 25 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 26 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 27 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 28 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 29 | And it will be an exclusivist world in which the rich countries insulate themselves from the pressure of migration , and the threat of terrorism . |
| 30 | Similar considerations present themselves as regards ‘ rendering to each his due ’ . |