Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of most non-Western societies regard themselves as the most superior form of being , in possession of the most desirable qualities . |
| 2 | The boiler-suit stage was completed in Chorzow on Wednesday , when Bobby Robson 's team made sure of a place in Italy next summer with a goalless draw , their third in six qualifying matches ; having kept a clean sheet in the other three , all won , they are entitled to regard themselves as the most workmanlike team in Europe . |
| 3 | it was very much a composite host , consisting of the Earl 's own feudal manpower , the levies required by the crown , for the support of the Warden , from Border lairds , and bands of assorted mosstroopers belonging to various clans who found it profitable and expedient to ally themselves with the most powerful figure in South-East Scotland , the assembly at Holywell Haugh amounting to about three thousand . |
| 4 | Fourth , there was anxiety over the extent to which the Gulf states , whether formal belligerents or not , had been arming themselves with the most advanced weaponry available from a wide range of sources . |
| 5 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 6 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 7 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 8 | No better example can be given than by citing the careers of Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn , both of whom worked with many different choreographers as well as submitting themselves to the severely classical discipline of the older Petipa repertoire . |
| 9 | Until the American and French Revolutions Bentham and other utilitarians hoped that they could persuade apparently enlightened rulers or despots to commit themselves to the self-evidently admirable aim of increasing the sum and the spread of human well-being . |