Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God is God , not man writ large ; and he can not be spoken of simply by speaking of ourselves in a loud voice . |
| 2 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 3 | And this is where we are in danger of finding ourselves in a vicious circle : for industry one has got to have products and to get products one has got to have industry … |
| 4 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 5 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 6 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 7 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 8 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 9 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 10 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 11 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 12 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 13 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 14 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half . |
| 16 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 17 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 18 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 19 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 20 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 21 | When George Abbott , the Archbishop of Canterbury , accidentally shot dead a gamekeeper , Andrewes , as a member of a commission of enquiry , urged his colleagues ‘ Brethren , be not too busy to condemn any for uncanonicles according to the strictness thereof , lest we render ourselves in the same condition . ’ |
| 22 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 23 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 24 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 25 | We find ourselves in an impossible position . |
| 26 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 27 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 28 | He sent for one man and Chennaa , swallowed some cold meat and wine and , wrapping himself in a dry cloak , went and mounted the camel , crooning love-talk as she rose to her feet and took up her soft , swaying gait . |
| 29 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 30 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |