Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 2 | Decisions in a compliance system are graduated in character ( Eisenberg , 1976 ) , and though in rare cases matters are ultimately settled by adjudication , they are normally controlled by the parties themselves in private , intimate negotiations which rely on bargaining , not adjudication . |
| 3 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | The curious absence of the traders themselves from this formulation reflects Morel 's concentration on winning labour to the pacifist cause . |
| 5 | Our budget reflects our commitment to our schools , it aims to improve the level of service to our schools , particularly in the area that 's been identified the schools themselves , by the schools themselves as one of their highe their highest priorities , that was special needs . |
| 6 | Seekie refused and , despite earlier declarations to the contrary , asserted that the conflict " must be resolved by Liberians themselves without any interventions from outside " . |
| 7 | In particular , there is a need for clear guidance on the reporting by companies themselves on inherent uncertainties and statements of directors ' responsibilities . |
| 8 | 1 the attitudes of the fishermen themselves towards these new craft , |
| 9 | Banks have a dual role , as agents for their customers who buy and sell foreign exchange , and as dealers themselves in foreign exchange . |
| 10 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 11 | Training is directed towards encouraging advisers to recognise such clients and then help them to resolve their problems themselves with self-help material , which is produced in many areas . |
| 12 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 13 | This ranged from the reproducibility of the film which is now telescoped through television and video ; to the opera or concert through the increased availability of gramophone recordings from the 1920s ; and to the reproduction of paintings themselves through photographic means in books , magazines , and television . |
| 14 | The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff . |
| 15 | Not only were lines built to tap it , not only did almost every station become a distribution centre in all those areas where the fossil fuel was vital for domestic and industrial use , but trains themselves in many countries ran on it . |
| 16 | It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject . |
| 17 | This lies , rather , in formulation and acceptance by teachers themselves of new , less control-centred educational purposes , along with an easing of the constraints and conditions in which those purposes are to be fulfilled . |
| 18 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |
| 19 | Historical data can also be collected from a range of other less structured records and diverse kinds of sources , and input by pupils themselves under agreed headings . |
| 20 | In Tanzania , WWF provided emergency funds to cover a highly successful anti-poaching sweep , which led to the arrest of more than 1,000 people , ranging from the poachers themselves to corrupt officials , many of whom had been involved in the ivory trade . |
| 21 | If these are not addressed coherently , along with broad structural issues of funding and organization , it is likely that the hopes of many people with a crucial stake in this area and even the roles of local authorities themselves in this field may well be subject to disappointment and re-evaluation . |
| 22 | to operate among the capacities and struggles which exist outside themselves : while they are crucially important in forming these into a programme they can not create practical policies themselves for these arise from people 's practical negotiation of their immediate environment . |
| 23 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 24 | They even used phrases originally employed by the students themselves in informal conversation . |
| 25 | This critique , presented in an historical perspective , will focus both on women 's opportunities to generate eventual occupational pension scheme benefits themselves via paid employment , and on issues relating to widows ' benefits . |
| 26 | But it is not easy to differentiate between the views of middle class commentators and those of working class women themselves on this issue . |
| 27 | What amuses me is that many of those who claimed I would hang , died violent deaths themselves in some pot-holed alleyway , bleak battlefield or gory execution yard . |
| 28 | That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 29 | Structuralism was able to use the nouveaux romanciers denial of an autobiographical motivation and its allocation of an apparently more active role to the reader as an illustration of the ‘ death of the author ’ criterion , while the difficult question of referentiality would be echoed by many of the novelists themselves in critical debate . |
| 30 | In some instances , patients are able to discontinue these habits themselves without much difficulty later on . |