Example sentences of "to themselves and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students ( all over 18 years of age ) chose a topic of interest to themselves and of potential use to others The students ' aim was to produce a database and they were thus involved in skills of defining their information needs , planning methods of acquiring information , and assessing the information needs of the users of the database . |
| 2 | But if they are not spotted early in their training , they can be a real menace to themselves and to their instructors . |
| 3 | Since karate competition is all about landing a controlled technique , it follows that shortsighted competitors may pose a danger both to themselves and to their opponents . |
| 4 | An understanding of the complexities of both components of communicating is likely to help people to carry which is effective and brings satisfaction to themselves and to others . |
| 5 | They even talk aloud to themselves and to adults , who will never betray what they hear of the Walter Mitty dreams of their future lives . |
| 6 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |
| 7 | Because they are only accountable to themselves and to their shareholders , they would leave themselves exposed and vulnerable to those who do not take kindly to being dictated to by ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 8 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 9 | The division managers must find ways to explain the existence of mixed messages to themselves and to their subordinates . |
| 10 | People with addictive disease may do terrible things to themselves and to others in the course of their illness . |
| 11 | The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial . |
| 12 | Individuals develop a sense of worth to themselves and to others by the ways in which people treat them and their communities . |
| 13 | Doctors whose work brings them into contact with detainees owe it to themselves and to the detainee to take the trouble to make a special study of the subject and undertake further training . |
| 14 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 15 | The drugs used are highly toxic and those in charge have to learn the dangers both to themselves and to patients . |
| 16 | The drugs used are highly toxic and those in charge have to learn the dangers both to themselves and to patients . |