Example sentences of "themselves [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the new regulations gain parliamentary approval , producers or importers of consumer goods will be obliged to recover packaging , either themselves or through a hired contractor , by the start of next year . |
| 2 | The papers by Christoph Sauer and Kiernan Ryan are both concerned with the way in which language can be used to influence people 's conceptions of themselves and of the socio-political environment they live in , as well as to condition and constrain their behaviour . |
| 3 | According to several participants , the prevailing ignorance of New Testament scholarship is in large part the fault of the churches themselves and of the ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 4 | We are also developing a common funding formula for self- governing schools which is fair , both to the schools themselves and to the local education authorities which is transparent and which offers a reasonable prospect of stability of funding . |
| 5 | Like a chain reaction , such suspicions quickly breed upon themselves and in the convoluted world of intelligence find ready ears because there is always someone willing to denigrate another person 's opinions . |
| 6 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 7 | The management of patients who mutilate themselves while in a disturbed state will include treatment of the disorder that has led to the disturbance and will invariably have to be initiated in the psychiatric inpatient setting . |
| 8 | The organizing theme of the book is distilled in chapter ten , where I delineate exactly why black sportsmen regard themselves as at a possible disadvantage in sport , how they perceive blackness as an impediment and , most crucially , how they react to it . |
| 9 | The continuing partners will also regard themselves as under a moral obligation ( quite apart from any annuity arrangements that may come into operation ) to the spouse and dependent children of their deceased colleague to ensure that such cash as may be due to his estate is paid over without undue delay . |