Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] themselves in " in BNC.

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1 For Foucault , the tendency of theories of ideology to entrammel themselves in the categories of psychoanalysis , even with the eternal in Althusser 's case , means that they themselves begin to utilize the very procedures of individuation that they ought to have been analysing .
2 This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways .
3 A relay of tapes filled themselves in the machines on the table beside them .
4 Those who preferred the pretence of business immersed themselves in a book and , from time to time , made an ostentatious note .
5 Now that 's not particularly sensational , and that 's where the drugs and the alcohol abuse level comes across , and that is the emotive term , but what I 'm saying really is the symptoms which that teachers are displaying of stress manifest themselves in an increase in er abuse of alcohol which could only be the odd extra drink , or the odd 5 cigarettes a day , and sleeping tablets , and that becomes an issue when you have n't got a teacher who 's not in control the following day , but you certainly have a teacher who 's not 100% , and that 's where the effect on the child tends to occur .
6 The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition .
7 The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too .
8 In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula .
9 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 ’ .
10 There is nearly unanimous agreement among historians about the significance of the ‘ impossible situation ’ in which the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine found themselves in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries .
11 These results may also be seen as offering some tentative support to the contention that the greater flexibility now permitted in fee setting , coupled with the ability of architects to establish themselves in a wider variety of organisational forms and to advertise more freely , has essentially lubricated the market and led to greater efficiency .
12 It is n't easy for a lot of women to display themselves in this way to someone .
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