Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outer leaves are very important for the effect of the painting , especially against the sky , whereas it is possible to lose myself in the inner masses to some extent . |
| 2 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 3 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 4 | This shows itself in a variety of ways : in the all-consuming craving for more money and possessions , more power and social status , and more pleasure and entertainment . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 6 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 7 | This reflects itself in the fact that when I actually make a measurement I shall find the electron sometimes here and sometimes over there . |
| 8 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The central concern of all four of these 1949 conventions is the protection of victims of war , especially victims who in one way or another find themselves in the hands of the adversary . |
| 11 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 12 | For these are hyper-competitive athletes , all ex-pro American footballers or wrestlers , and not afraid to punish themselves in the cause of being The Best . |
| 13 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 14 | This either indicates the typical ’ lip-service ’ paid to issues of racism , the overriding liberalism , the negation of our abilities to give a contribution , or it show that Black women are not prepared to involve themselves in a reactionary movement which takes no account of our needs . |
| 15 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 16 | However , it is very easy to find yourself in a financial crisis . |
| 17 | It is a large , modern building and it would be easy to imagine oneself in a hospital except for the noise , cheerful bustle and attractive classrooms . |
| 18 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 19 | The second embedded itself in the ground near Lee 's foot . |
| 20 | While the underclass is composed of both black and white workers , black workers , in Elizabeth Burney 's phrase , act as a barium meal in an X-ray — highlighting the weak points — or , for our purposes , the fate of the most disadvantaged , those most likely to find themselves in the ranks of the underclass . |
| 21 | ‘ It is hard to put yourself in the mind of a general , , Cameron answered . |
| 22 | They all three hunched themselves in the grass and nibbled , while the rain ran off their fur in streams . |
| 23 | From the earliest encounters between Europeans and Others right to the present , these manifest themselves in an endless series of speculations , projections , fantasies and crimes in relation to ‘ African ’ and ‘ Oriental ’ women and men ( Gilman , 1985 , 1987 ; Cohen , 1988 ; Open University , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | However , those in the manufacturing sector and , more particularly , those in more highly skilled positions , are more likely to place themselves in the latter category . |
| 25 | I collected the boy from his room as you directed , and he saw fit to equip himself in a … presentable manner . ’ |
| 26 | Sarah asked the nanny , standing on tip-toe to see herself in the gilt-framed mirror in the hall . |
| 27 | Pat found herself wondering whether to return to Purley , but decided after all to establish herself in the South West and spread the Medau message by taking up teaching again after her rather brief retirement . |
| 28 | Those who spoke on behalf of the elderly found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 29 | This is an exercise in persuasion , and requires composers who will focus their art on the simple and fundamental act of communication with their enthusiastic but tired , inattentive , restless , distracted and easily bored fellow human beings who none the less long to hear themselves in a not necessarily flattering mirror of music . |
| 30 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |