Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] themselves [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 2 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 3 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 4 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 5 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 6 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 7 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 8 | The Cubist painters had claimed for themselves the right to move around their subject and incorporate aspects of it not visible from a single point of view , and they bestowed , in theory if not in actual practice , the same liberty on the spectator in relationship to their own work . |
| 9 | The home provides a safe and secure place for children to ask their biggest questions about faith and to discover for themselves the love of God in Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 11 | In this way , pupils will have the opportunity to discover for themselves the reasons for their beliefs , values and opinions . |
| 12 | It naturally combines with the view that individuals should develop freely to find for themselves the form of the good which they wish to pursue in their life . |
| 13 | But Stanislavskian actors are nevertheless concerned in rehearsal and other preparation time with tapping their own reservoirs of emotional memories to find within themselves a sophistication , subtlety or depth of emotional engagement so that in concentrating on the character 's actions , a wider , deeper range of emotions may be released . |
| 14 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 15 | It was a shocking sight to see innocent little children chasing a Ball among their hot desires , burning like dangerous flowers in the grass , each couple shameless and oblivious , weaving around themselves a tight cocoon of lust and indifference to others . |
| 16 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 17 | Lucy Honeychurch 's generation are trying to assert their right to choose for themselves the path of their lives . |
| 18 | David Blunkett MP showed himself most committed on the issue , protesting at the sheer chutzpah of the Tories in purloining for themselves a concept of essentially socialist origin . |
| 19 | And the idea was to provide a a place where where hopefully local people could erm identify for themselves the problems that they shared in common . |
| 20 | Labour 's deputy shadow transport secretary , Brian Wilson , accused the Government of ‘ writing for themselves a plunderers ’ charter ’ . |
| 21 | In the eighteenth century this undifferentiated mass nobility had tended to contract , and it was the lower ranges of this class who , as ennobled civil servants , collected to themselves the influence lost by the great court aristocracy . |
| 22 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 23 | It was thought desirable to hedge it about with safeguards that would prevent the representatives from arrogating to themselves the powers and authority that properly belonged to the people . |
| 24 | This fact meant that Danzigers had far more opportunity to mull over Nazi propaganda and assess for themselves the extent of the Polish , Communist and Jewish ‘ threats ’ . |
| 25 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 26 | The Picts could see for themselves the benefits and in doing so , the Romans hoped , would cease their war-like activities and come to heel . |
| 27 | For informal workers who genuinely do work for themselves the freedom of being your own boss does not often amount to much amid growing competition and soaring inflation . |
| 28 | In his work with teachers , especially through in-service courses , he put them into a " classroom " situation to experience for themselves the materials of art . |
| 29 | The faithful elucidated the mysteries of Indirect Rule with the theological rapture of early Christians disclosing to themselves the nature of the Trinity . |
| 30 | Fortunately it was a warm afternoon and many colleagues took the opportunity to discuss among themselves the significance of the Maastricht events on the terrace overlooking the Thames . |