Example sentences of "pride themselves on " in BNC.
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| 1 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 2 | Priding themselves on being modern-minded about such things , they subjected passion to planning and decided to have a spring baby . |
| 3 | Britain 's social engineers had prided themselves on the ability to plan as they had done during the war . |
| 4 | All had prided themselves on training and nurturing their own people , and all boasted many employees who had notched up decades of faithful service . |
| 5 | Ever since Kissinger and Heath were flattered by Zhou Enlai , Western politicians have prided themselves on being able to ameliorate Chinese policy through private persuasion . |
| 6 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 7 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 8 | While Rome aspired ever more ambitiously to a new imperial ideal , the Egyptian monasteries prided themselves on a much purer , much more faithful and accurate record of Jesus himself , his kin and his teachings . |
| 9 | Even the large landowners living in Madrid prided themselves on their interest in their tenantry . |
| 10 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 11 | It is probably fair to say that very few hotels in all of Italy can pride themselves on such an enviable position as the Hotel Italia . |
| 12 | Janssen promise their customers fast delivery , and since they have inventory on more than 12,000 different products , they pride themselves on keeping this promise . |
| 13 | The owners , Signor and Signora Leoni and their son pride themselves on their high standards of personal service . |
| 14 | The fast food outlets certainly pride themselves on speed of service , an attractive environment and a friendly and courteous staff . |
| 15 | All schools , maintained day schools as well as private boarding schools , pride themselves on the clubs they support , the plays they put on , the choirs and orchestras they muster . |
| 16 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 17 | For a people who pride themselves on their love of animals , and considering the age-old human dependence on animals for food and work and as pets , it seems strange that a college to train veterinary surgeons in this country was only established two hundred years ago in response to a plan proposed by a Frenchman . |
| 18 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 19 | Drivers are noted egotists and pride themselves on being hard men who are in a given place to race and the devil take the hindmost . |
| 20 | ‘ They are a big , heavy side and they pride themselves on having rugged forwards , ’ said Moore . |
| 21 | They pride themselves on the ‘ family ’ atmosphere among the workforce . |
| 22 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 23 | The peacekeepers in New York pride themselves on a brand-new 24-hour operations room . |
| 24 | Mr. Wuben and his staff pride themselves on the friendly service offered to all guests , they are sure to give you a real Dutch welcome and are happy to help with a wealth of information to help you really enjoy your visit . |
| 25 | The owners pride themselves on offering comfortable accommodation , on giving personal service with attention to detail and on providing a choice of good food . |
| 26 | For meal times , the pleasant dining-room 's design is particularly spacious and in the kitchens the hotel chefs pride themselves on offering good , typically Italian style cooking at dinner and an ample breakfast each morning . |
| 27 | Recently refurbished , it offers the most upto-date facilities combined with staff who pride themselves on offering traditional good service and friendly welcomes . |
| 28 | The accommodation is cool and spotless and staff pride themselves on offering a warm welcome . |
| 29 | The staff pride themselves on offering a friendly welcome and helpful service . |
| 30 | Staff pride themselves on offering a warm welcome and the friendly , English speaking manager , Signor Zucconi will deal personally with any queries . |