Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 2 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 3 | Notably , Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts play themselves in some of the most crucial scenes . |
| 4 | Well , it 's erm , fairly local incident , that this paper has been er borne , er to give the er permission for borrowing , when the labour , liberal er controlling group find themselves in this embarrassing position , er , of having to find an extra eleven million pounds to maintain their services . |
| 5 | As well as the growth in the number of low-paid jobs , a significant group of flexible workers find themselves in great demand , and consequently gain high salaries . |
| 6 | Algae reproduce themselves in two ways — by straightforward asexual division and by the sexual method , of such importance to the progress of evolution , in which the sex cells will only develop if they meet each other and fuse in pairs . |
| 7 | In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three . |
| 8 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 9 | I disagree , and on the contrary find myself in full agreement with those parts of the judgment of Parker L.J . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More generally , if we are to incorporate our results into a theory of ordinary language comprehension , we must explicate the relation between experimental task and the ‘ tasks ’ that people set themselves in ordinary reading and listening . |
| 12 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 18 | Sensitivities to foods manifest themselves in many different ways . |
| 19 | Markers lend themselves in particular to mixed media sketching and to mixed media artwork for reproduction in print . |
| 20 | At various points in this book , we may be able to discern how changes in attitudes of curriculum planners to the purpose of the primary school manifest themselves in new ideas about languages of instruction , a new urgency in finding out about community needs , an increased commitment to the concept of basic education . |
| 21 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 22 | Surfboarding is popular on the North coast , where crashing Atlantic combers spend themselves in long beaches . |
| 23 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |
| 24 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |