Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human beings form economic relations of many kinds with one another , involve themselves in political relationships or religious ones , live within many kinds of groups , and so on . |
| 2 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 3 | Clearly , there are real problems in equating society' or ‘ community ’ wholly with the limited , if very important , interactions in which people involve themselves in particular localities . |
| 4 | Electrophysiological measures suggest themselves in this context but the problem of artefact , that is , of actual or potential eye movements producing an asymmetry in the EEG record ( Anderson , 1977 ) , would have to be circumvented . |
| 5 | Christ does care about the details of how we conduct ourselves in all these situations , because the standards we have at work either honour him or dishonour him . |
| 6 | in the pluralist perspective , show itself in economic dependency , lower income , poorer quality of life , social disadvantages or in lack of political influence . |
| 7 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 8 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 9 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 10 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 11 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 12 | Imagine yourself in that position . |
| 13 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 14 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 15 | Put yourself in Fifties or Sixties costume , throw in a couple of vintage cars to set the scene , and you 've got it made . |
| 16 | In developing an image , you and your workers , professional or voluntary , have to swallow your pride , smile at yourselves and put yourselves in second place to getting the message across — not easy , not often said , but true ! |
| 17 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |
| 18 | Climbing over them , I nearly cut mesen in half . |
| 19 | Simon was convinced that the only way to gain power over his nightmares , to rid himself of them forever , was to defy them and steep himself in further acts of intimidation and violence . |
| 20 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 21 | Markers lend themselves in particular to mixed media sketching and to mixed media artwork for reproduction in print . |
| 22 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 23 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 24 | Social policy planners in particular are perplexed and tie themselves in appalling knots trying to work out equitable ways of dealing with this anomalous creature . |
| 25 | ‘ Spotty backs are caused when grease glands become blocked as we wrap ourselves in man-made fibres that inhibit air circulation . |
| 26 | We organise ourselves in different schools of studies . |
| 27 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 28 | Just get yourself in this car else we 'll be late . |
| 29 | Reduce your stress levels and get yourself in tip-top condition in this month 's fabulous competition ! |
| 30 | ‘ Wrap yourself in that while I change the sheets . ’ |