Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 2 | Even then , the problem of seamen finding themselves disqualified for petty reasons remained an aggravating one . |
| 3 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 4 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 5 | They can of course call themselves Slavophils , but that is to try and wish away Peter , to perform an act of mental regression , not to be a Russian . |
| 6 | Then on Friday they would stream back to Cork from all over the province of Munster to clean themselves up , don their best clothes , and go to synagogue to greet the Sabbath . |
| 7 | Now , she and another veteran poppy seller , Brenda Maudsley , 78 , of Bowring Parkhave themselves been remembered by the British Legion in Liverpool . |
| 8 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 9 | For Foucault , the tendency of theories of ideology to entrammel themselves in the categories of psychoanalysis , even with the eternal in Althusser 's case , means that they themselves begin to utilize the very procedures of individuation that they ought to have been analysing . |
| 10 | The second has been the sheer number of institutions calling themselves tribunals . |
| 11 | They must raise the large amounts of money needed themselves ; recruit an effective personal staff ; perform adequately before the TV cameras and maintain a satisfactory personal service for constituents . |
| 12 | In the wild , even modern breeds of hens form themselves into small social groups comprising one cockerel and perhaps four or five hens . |
| 13 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 14 | LMS , appraisal systems and governing body involvements compound the demands of heads to remove themselves from the classrooms , and to dictate instructions down the line . |
| 15 | During February , 1692 the Campbells went to Glencoe and under the guise of friendship billeted themselves on McIan Macdonald and his kinsmen . |
| 16 | Such failures of perception reveal themselves most acrimoniously in the issue of intellectual property rights . |
| 17 | In 1974 23% of teenagers described themselves as daily smokers . |
| 18 | Further disaggregation of the assets and three possible avenues of research suggest themselves . |
| 19 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , at Scone on the 5th February 1284 , Alexander made all the estates of Scotland bind themselves by oath to acknowledge the Maid of Norway as his heir , failing any children Alexander might have in the future . |
| 21 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |
| 22 | These were difficult times for the voices of pacifism to make themselves heard . |
| 23 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 24 | At the second attempt he presented voters with a painstakingly worked out proposal which included among its measures the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society , the right of natives to govern themselves and reform of the senate . |
| 25 | The 13th Company Law Directive will put an end to the more blatant ‘ poison pill ’ tactics that enable companies under threat of takeover to make themselves unappetising . |
| 26 | As the police in both countries in recent years have relied increasingly on notions of professionalism to defend themselves against political attack , so police organizations have asserted themselves more publicly to promote not only their own organization , but also particular policies regarding law and order which they deem to be necessary . |
| 27 | Of mongrel breed themselves , the Jews were purportedly engaged in a conspiracy to bastardize the races of mankind and to bring the natural nation states of the world under the control of a one-world Jewish superstate . |
| 28 | On the other hand , a fairly circumscribed set of possibilities suggest themselves . |
| 29 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | A relay of tapes filled themselves in the machines on the table beside them . |