Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 2 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 3 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 4 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 5 | Women use pieces of attire … to reinscribe themselves in the patriarchal system … . |
| 6 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 7 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 8 | There was , they believed , no reason ‘ why competent knowledge and critical skill , if encouraged to exercise themselves in the disinterested pursuit of truth , should be less fruitful in religious than in social and physical ideas ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the sun below the horizon it was only by a perceptible lightening of the sky in that direction that it was possible to place themselves in the great ocean of trees . |
| 11 | Our spare room ( with the toys in ) was unfortunately impenetrably filled with sitting-room furniture ( the sitting-room is awaiting redecoration ) , but the boys managed to entertain themselves in the empty sitting-room instead . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , PW has welcomed the report , not least because it allows the firm to tell its side of the story without being hindered by the confidentiality rules which have left partners unable to defend themselves in the 16 months since the bank collapsed . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | A quick glance around the line-ups of Leeds ' rivals reveals a team of Elland Road rejects who 've gone on to prove themselves in the Premier League . |
| 15 | It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river . |
| 16 | There were those , however , who decided by a quite conscious effort of will to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of such humble if not squalid areas of London ; one such man was Rev. William Quekett , about whom Dickens was here writing in his article , ‘ What a London curate can do if he tries ’ . |