Example sentences of "which [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | While one has to admire the contortions into which employers forced themselves to go to prove that their current practice was rational , coherent and best for all concerned , one feels they do protest too much . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | Differences occur between teachers , between children , and between various environments in which schools find themselves . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The list of prestige projects to which governments committed themselves is long , ranging from magnificent presidential palaces in such countries as Liberia , Cameroun and Gabon , to whole capital cities as in Malawi , Tanzania and Nigeria . |
| 12 | Douglas McGregor , in his book The Human Side of Enterprise , discussed the way in which managers see themselves in relation to others . |
| 13 | Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | We have seen that the position of the sun is used as a compass , by which pigeons direct themselves away from release points . |
| 15 | In fact , this is probably one of the commonest ways in which patients describe themselves . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One of the most difficult questions which teachers ask themselves throughout their professional lives concerns the nature of the differences between pupils . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First we need to review the national predicament in which teachers find themselves . |
| 21 | The answer to these questions lies in the political-economic context in which land-users find themselves . |
| 22 | At Board/WEA level , as neither body wished the impasse with which members found themselves confronted to continue interminably Hickson met Green informally . |
| 23 | Examining the cultural foundations through which societies characterised themselves ( e.g. myths , rituals , games ) , anthropologists increasingly perceived that history is culturally ordered and produced according to the structures by which historical happenings are understood . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A common example is the situation in which students find themselves being asked questions on topics that have not been taught . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This applies especially to the area in which anthropologists consider themselves especially expert — the field of kinship relationships . |