Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 2 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 3 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 4 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 5 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 6 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 7 | When temporary workers responding to the British Labour Force Survey were themselves invited to differentiate between these two groups , two-thirds placed themselves in the first category . |
| 8 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 9 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 10 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 11 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 12 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 13 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 14 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 15 | In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years . |
| 16 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |
| 17 | These divisions establish themselves in the first five years or so of our lives . |