Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 2 | Captive and wild elephants have been observed holding sticks in their trunks to scratch themselves and using leafy branches as gigantic fly swats . |
| 3 | Douglas McGregor , in his book The Human Side of Enterprise , discussed the way in which managers see themselves in relation to others . |
| 4 | A common example is the situation in which students find themselves being asked questions on topics that have not been taught . |
| 5 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 6 | What it must now do is issue some clear guidelines on the manner in which doctors involve themselves — directly or indirectly — in promoting unproved remedies to the general public . |
| 7 | The answer to these questions lies in the political-economic context in which land-users find themselves . |
| 8 | If this diversity in ethos cuts across any diversity in the objective conditions in which teachers find themselves , as it seems to , then there is reason to doubt the idea that decline in these conditions is the cause of teacher demoralization . |
| 9 | If we can get a clear idea about the situation in which teachers find themselves at present , and how they experience it , then we shall be in a better position to see what the most productive way forward is . |
| 10 | First we need to review the national predicament in which teachers find themselves . |
| 11 | From birth , the environment in which babies find themselves is an intensely social one and almost inevitably they become enmeshed in a network of social interactions ( Richards 1974 ; Schaffer 1977 ) . |
| 12 | Sometimes the panic is passed over and forgotten , but at other times it has more serious and long term repercussions and it might produce changes in legal and social policy or even in the way in which societies conceive themselves . |
| 13 | In fact , this is probably one of the commonest ways in which patients describe themselves . |
| 14 | ( b ) The proactive , directional planning approach is usually more appropriate to the dynamic environment in which schools find themselves and to their need to react to pupils and circumstances . |
| 15 | Differences occur between teachers , between children , and between various environments in which schools find themselves . |
| 16 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 17 | This applies especially to the area in which anthropologists consider themselves especially expert — the field of kinship relationships . |
| 18 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 19 | I will argue that such a truth is relational ; that is , relative to the social and historical location of the intersubjective action , discursive and practical , in which participants find themselves . |
| 20 | The character of family relationships has been changing and continues to change to suit the particular circumstances in which individuals find themselves — often very subtly but sometimes quite visibly . |
| 21 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 22 | Similarly , if social representation theorists stress anchoring one-sidedly , they will find themselves describing the ways in which individuals anchor themselves to social knowledge : the thinking individual will be perceived as someone who unthinkingly seeks to avoid novelty by automatically categorizing fresh information in terms of familiar schemata . |
| 23 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 24 | Simply expressed , in a situation in which voters detach themselves from a close identification with parties then issues come to assume a greater significance in voting behaviour and electoral choice . |
| 25 | Systemhouse sees the acquisition , the terms of which have not been disclosed , as the breakthrough in its efforts to build itself a powerful facilities management operation and capability in the UK . |
| 26 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |