Example sentences of "[noun] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Decisions in a compliance system are graduated in character ( Eisenberg , 1976 ) , and though in rare cases matters are ultimately settled by adjudication , they are normally controlled by the parties themselves in private , intimate negotiations which rely on bargaining , not adjudication . |
| 3 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 5 | Our budget reflects our commitment to our schools , it aims to improve the level of service to our schools , particularly in the area that 's been identified the schools themselves , by the schools themselves as one of their highe their highest priorities , that was special needs . |
| 6 | Your national side may not have a future themselves by that time if they 've lost every game in between . |
| 7 | Seekie refused and , despite earlier declarations to the contrary , asserted that the conflict " must be resolved by Liberians themselves without any interventions from outside " . |
| 8 | Over the following fortnight , during which the Home Office recommends that people cocoon themselves in some form of shelter , the dose of radiation For each individual not in a shelter would be 450 rems . |
| 9 | In particular , there is a need for clear guidance on the reporting by companies themselves on inherent uncertainties and statements of directors ' responsibilities . |
| 10 | Invariably , these couples either arrange for dog walkers or return home themselves at regular intervals to exercise and feed the dog . |
| 11 | 1 the attitudes of the fishermen themselves towards these new craft , |
| 12 | Banks have a dual role , as agents for their customers who buy and sell foreign exchange , and as dealers themselves in foreign exchange . |
| 13 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |
| 14 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 15 | Training is directed towards encouraging advisers to recognise such clients and then help them to resolve their problems themselves with self-help material , which is produced in many areas . |
| 16 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 17 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 18 | This ranged from the reproducibility of the film which is now telescoped through television and video ; to the opera or concert through the increased availability of gramophone recordings from the 1920s ; and to the reproduction of paintings themselves through photographic means in books , magazines , and television . |
| 19 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
| 20 | The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff . |
| 21 | Production costs are not too great and production can be undertaken at may libraries by the library staff themselves without external professional help . |
| 22 | Second , it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not only were lines built to tap it , not only did almost every station become a distribution centre in all those areas where the fossil fuel was vital for domestic and industrial use , but trains themselves in many countries ran on it . |
| 25 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 26 | There seems to be an inverse correlation between sex and sensitivity : men who are currently having the least sex rate themselves as most sensitive . |
| 27 | This lies , rather , in formulation and acceptance by teachers themselves of new , less control-centred educational purposes , along with an easing of the constraints and conditions in which those purposes are to be fulfilled . |
| 28 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |
| 29 | We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs . |
| 30 | Historical data can also be collected from a range of other less structured records and diverse kinds of sources , and input by pupils themselves under agreed headings . |