Example sentences of "for themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single entrepreneurs just starting up , with little capital , may prepare their own advertising literature and letterheads ; do all their own bookkeeping ; organise their own promotion campaigns ; carry out their own market research on new products ; find out for themselves about new customers and , when the business begins to grow , handle their recruiting problems by advertising or asking around . |
| 2 | Pupils should have opportunities to handle and investigate objects for themselves at close quarters . |
| 3 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 4 | With Europe in recession and fears about unemployment , Britain and other countries which could previously be relied upon to put the case for a freer market ( and a bigger share for themselves of Japanese investment ) are no longer being heard . |
| 5 | Allowed to choose for themselves under feral conditions , nearly all offspring arrive at a time when nutritional inputs to the dam are rising to a maximum , ie optimum grass growth . |
| 6 | One consequence in industrial terms was the greater bargaining power of professional and white-collar groups , especially focusing on their trade unions as during the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , able to use their bargaining muscle to claim a growing share of the national income for themselves without much compensation in manufacturing or investment . |
| 7 | Children 's early invented spellings often demonstrate logical consistency ; this grasp of regularity should be recognised as an initial achievement and children should be helped to be confident in attempting to spell words for themselves without undue dependence on the teacher . |
| 8 | Similarly , no two communities would be willing to pay more than £400 , since they could obtain a scheme for themselves for that amount . |
| 9 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 10 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 11 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |
| 12 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 13 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 14 | However the dealers who bought and sold for themselves in opportune moments while trading in new issues on behalf of clients have sometimes been found out and reprimanded , but not usually sacked , if they were good dealers . |
| 15 | The groups play out their scene for themselves in small groups , but only for a couple of minutes . |
| 16 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
| 17 | In the national scheme of things , clippies would pay for themselves in increased efficiency , but more direct finance could come from super-taxing car fuel to penalise the gas guzzlers , and by re-allocating the tax benefits which currently go to company car drivers . |
| 18 | Moreover some individual Franks did extremely well for themselves in imperial service , and one or two even gained the consulship . |
| 19 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 20 | ‘ What was novel in the fifteenth century was that these rich people ( the upper middle classes ) began to build splendid dwellings for themselves in such great numbers ’ writes Mr Thornton , and the fact that interior decoration appears in something approaching its present-day form in this period is the key to this book . |
| 21 | Not until they start to grow plants for themselves in different conditions may they come to see that plant growth needs explaining . |
| 22 | The different access that people from different social class origins have to resources in retirement is a major determinant of who can and who can not provide for themselves in old age . |
| 23 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 24 | These achievements were highly praised in the Chinese media and people could see the results for themselves in some localities with more agricultural produce on sale . |
| 25 | This power derives , not from any superior individual or institutional competence , but from the strategically important role which these interests have been able to mark out for themselves in American society . |
| 26 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 28 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 29 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |