Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] themselves [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 2 | The Mayor and his friends were themselves the criminals , hand in glove with the smugglers whose leader Jake was clearly an old ally . |
| 3 | In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling — as in a family . |
| 4 | Local peace initiative activities were themselves the targets of violence attacks . |
| 5 | This is a crucial stage of development from that in which — in the earlier stages substantially , in the later stages residually — artists were themselves a specific form of social organization . |
| 6 | 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 . |