Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of both pomeshchiks and streltsy , their need to support themselves during much of the year placed enormous obstacles in the way of training and disciplining them , or introducing them to new methods of warfare . |
| 2 | Over the next few years , they re-established themselves as one of the most skilful and attack-minded teams in Scotland . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The children amuse themselves for much of the time , with the local swimming pool proving a favourite treat . |
| 5 | Central Switzerland is a name used regularly by the Swiss themselves for one of their country 's major regions and it fairly well explains itself . |
| 6 | They held their line and competed hard in midfield , damping down Oldham 's initial verve and preparing themselves for more of the same in the second half . |
| 7 | Others , such as the Jewish religious laws , may continue to propagate themselves for thousands of years , usually because of the great potential permanence of written records . |
| 8 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 9 | Examples are the splitting up of AT&T in the US , referred to above , the more stringent conditions put on the BA/BCal merger by the EC authorities , and the MMC recommendation that the major UK brewers should divest themselves of most of their public houses ( Supply of Beer , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | I noticed that children often marked themselves like this in play . |
| 11 | On top of that , they have shackled themselves with some of the most inane and restrictive laws imaginable , laws that leave you wondering what on earth they were thinking about . |
| 12 | But an increasing number , typified by the conservative Heritage Foundation , define themselves above all by the fact that they hold a coherent body of ideas , and want to spread them . |
| 13 | Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering . |
| 14 | The banks having failed to bring themselves within any of the special jurisdictions laid down in article 5 or 6 , article 2 prevails , and Glasgow must be sued in their court of domicile in Scotland . |
| 15 | Ace and Petion slipped off the safety catches on their automatics and pressed themselves in close to the walls , ready to spring . |
| 16 | But the building boys managed to draw 2:2 in reply on April 21 doing an Oldham and redeeming themselves in one of the last games of the season . |
| 17 | Markers lend themselves in particular to mixed media sketching and to mixed media artwork for reproduction in print . |
| 18 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 19 | Notably , Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts play themselves in some of the most crucial scenes . |
| 20 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 21 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 . |
| 22 | Three months after the end of the study triglyceride concentrations had risen in the patients who had monitored themselves from 1.6 to 2.2 mmol/l ( NS ) , as had the patients ' cholesterol concentrations ( from 6.1 to 6.4 mmol/l ( NS ) ) . |
| 23 | Yes and the committee has to learn to adjust themselves to that to that to not worry |
| 24 | This means that they will recognise that they are not intended to commit themselves to all of the implicatures they had derived . |
| 25 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 26 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 27 | I hope I can encourage the uninitiated to go out and treat themselves to several for their Christmas stocking as well as see the value of videos as a valid support technique during the long winter evenings ahead . |
| 28 | When Pauline , Lady Spencer 's maid , came to collect her clothes , Diana and Lord Charles positioned themselves outside one of the side doors . |
| 29 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |