Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An indirect role where the teacher creates the conditions which will allow the children to initiate collaborative activities themselves in response to interests , purposes and needs arising from their activities . |
| 2 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 3 | The pies were produced within the public houses themselves by the manager 's wife or catering assistant on the basis of recipes prepared by this department . |
| 4 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 5 | The British pride themselves on having developed a system of government that has been a model for the rest of the world . |
| 6 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | Invariably , these couples either arrange for dog walkers or return home themselves at regular intervals to exercise and feed the dog . |
| 8 | What amuses me is that many of those who claimed I would hang , died violent deaths themselves in some pot-holed alleyway , bleak battlefield or gory execution yard . |
| 9 | In practice many managers are reluctant to delegate and attempt to do many routine matters themselves in addition to their more important duties . |
| 10 | It 's very likely to turn some of these children themselves into sort of er mutant monsters , er some of them behave extraordinarily badly , and yet they 're very sweet children when they 're eating the right diet . |
| 11 | William Shenstone , writing forty years earlier , explains in more realistic terms that the privileged interest themselves in the cottage ‘ partly on account of the variety it may introduce ; on account of the tranquillity that seems to reign there ; and perhaps , ( I am somewhat afraid ) on account of the pride of human nature ’ . |
| 12 | In some instances , patients are able to discontinue these habits themselves without much difficulty later on . |
| 13 | What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes . |
| 14 | Such research tended to transfer the focus from elderly people themselves to their environment . |
| 15 | Second , it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning . |
| 16 | Some horse owners try to correct this major imbalance themselves by adding bone meal to youngsters ' diets . |
| 17 | More important , perhaps , was the emergence in the Baltic republics themselves of an open , widely supported and coordinated nationalist movement taking the form of ‘ popular fronts ’ ( or in Lithuania , Sajudis ) . |
| 18 | As seen earlier in this Chapter , services in this church were conducted by deaf people themselves in sign language . |
| 19 | Not only should they fill posts in the lower Soviets — they should grasp the core of the political problem , which was cultural in essence : they would have to run the literary points , the schools , and the agricultural centres themselves in order to push the peasantry into the twentieth century and towards socialism . |
| 20 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 21 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |
| 22 | But Arsenal , desperate to put together a winning sequence themselves after a dismal start , will be in a tough mood . |
| 23 | It is a short step from such a view to ‘ blaming ’ older people themselves for the fiscal dilemma , another version of blaming the victim . |
| 24 | Thus the perceptions of older people themselves concerning old age , as well as the rest of society , have been affected by age-based retirement and pension policies . |
| 25 | Landscapes from the truly realist to the virtually abstract array themselves across the May gallery horizon . |
| 26 | They each address themselves to the reader 's understanding of what a just society should be like : they are publicly political writings . |
| 27 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 28 | to operate among the capacities and struggles which exist outside themselves : while they are crucially important in forming these into a programme they can not create practical policies themselves for these arise from people 's practical negotiation of their immediate environment . |
| 29 | From time to time , you should delete unwanted entries from your manual log of files and the unwanted files themselves from working disks . |
| 30 | They are living under loose tented accommodation , some of them do n't have tented accommodation erm the , the country is hot , erm there is a shortage of water , not just at the camps but also to er Jordanian towns themselves at the moment . |