Example sentences of "[verb] for themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents can be greatly helped if they have received early information and guidance on the needs of children with no sight or defective vision , and in addition the chance to see for themselves educational provision as well as receiving information about potential placements . |
| 2 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 3 | They began to acquire for themselves important political positions , especially in Parliament , and the ‘ West India lobby ’ became a powerful political force ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40–50 ) . |
| 4 | Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance . |
| 5 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 6 | Indeed , analysis is almost superfluous , since if any poems can speak for themselves these can . |
| 7 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 8 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , a further argument for public support of R & d may be because private firms realize they will not be able to appropriate for themselves all the benefits of their efforts . |
| 10 | But just as women now demand for themselves greater freedom to express different facets of the self , so too do some men , although not nearly so many of them . |
| 11 | They kill , they take away another 's life , to get for themselves more than they already have — more land , more money , more prestige . |
| 12 | More usually , however , the wardens paid a fixed annual sum into the Exchequer for the rights to collect for themselves certain forest revenues . |