Example sentences of "[be] themselves [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 2 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 3 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 4 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 6 | The protests were accompanied by at least eight cases of self-immolation , several of which resulted in deaths and were themselves the focus of further protests . |
| 7 | He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life . |
| 8 | We have already seen that these limits are themselves a matter of scientific dispute . |
| 9 | But intentions and motives are themselves a matter of rules of right and rational conduct in socially defined situations . |
| 10 | It is not within the scope of this book to offer a full account of the development of socialist realism in France , yet the point that needs to emerge clearly at this stage is that contemporary hostile assessments are themselves a product of a post-Stalinist epoch reacting violently against the crude excesses of Cold War politics and cultural policy . |
| 11 | Threats to property in a person 's presence are themselves a breach . |
| 12 | It starts from a belief that ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ are themselves the problem : conflict is a way of instituting necessary revolutionary change . |
| 13 | The talents of individuals , it suggests , are themselves the outcome of , and are explained by , various aspects of the social environment . |
| 14 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |
| 15 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 16 | Talents , he says , are themselves the product of social relations , and only appear when social conditions allow . |
| 17 | Crimes thus come about through human beings interpreting and applying rules ( which are themselves the product of human deliberation ) to the actions of others . |
| 18 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 19 | It would be better to say perhaps that electoral systems reinforce existing tendencies , because such systems are themselves the product of diverse constellations of political interests and parties , and of changes in those constellations . |
| 20 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 21 | Does he think that such an argument will help him , given that the objections come from the doctors , nurses and auxiliaries , who are themselves the health of the hospital , and who will be responsible for its continuing health ? |