Example sentences of "[adj] who [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 2 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 3 | Christian Democrats and Fascists , Greens and Republicans , Progressives and Conservatives , there are aplenty , as well , certainly , as some who call themselves Socialists and others who gave up the perfectly respectable name of Communist and now shelter under a variety of weasel descriptions , usually featuring words like ‘ democratic ’ and ‘ left ’ in unconvincing proximity . |
| 4 | Hence , although the connections are not automatic and are not embraced by all who call themselves idealists , there is an affinity between Idealists , idealists and an interpretative approach , just as there is between Realists , realists and a scientific one . |
| 5 | In the moral optimism informing this play , evil may corrode trust , but it also destroys the healthy functioning of all who give themselves over to it . |
| 6 | There were many who thought themselves smarter |
| 7 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 8 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 9 | There are , however , many who call themselves Marxists , who appear to have rejected entirely the whole problematic of dependency . |
| 10 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 11 | For those who asked themselves ‘ Can we afford it ? ’ and knew the answer was No , there were a greater number of tempting schemes , through which they could be led to believe the answer was Yes . |
| 12 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 13 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 14 | This is not the same form of heroism as those who put themselves at risk for others . |
| 15 | Centaury : Weakness of will ; those who let themselves be exploited or imposed upon — become subservient ; difficulty in saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 16 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 17 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 18 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 19 | With Romania seething next door , Mr Luchinsky will have his work cut out to capture the spirit of Stefan the Great from those who present themselves as his heirs . |
| 20 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 21 | Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick . |
| 22 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 23 | The small current campaign in California to prevent the use of Spanish is probably less about jobs , more about enforcing a single uniformity to the advantage of those who regard themselves as of English descent . |
| 24 | Tait and Stewart sought to show not the truth of Christianity , but its compatibility with modern science , and the narrowness of those who contented themselves with what they called ‘ how ’ questions and never with ‘ why ’ . |
| 25 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 26 | For those who sell themselves into a like dominion , paying down the price of their own honour , and throwing their soul into the balance to sink the scale to the level of their lusts , must win deliverance hardly . |
| 27 | Some of these arguments were overstated ; nevertheless , power in the Senate in that era was , without doubt , highly centralized with most leading positions held by senior conservatives , or by those who made themselves acceptable to the ruling élite . |
| 28 | But those who trap themselves inside nationalist thinking , which includes most political journalists and politicians in the UK , prefer not to reckon with the historical fact that most of recorded human history managed fairly well , indeed probably much better , without nationalism . |
| 29 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 30 | His limited experience of the nature of modern warfare convinced him that those who sacrificed themselves for their country should not die in vain . |