Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The parking bays remains , but vouchers may be purchased individually or in books of 10 from various outlets in the town ( such as the Tourist Information Centre , Brighton Centre , selected newsagents , post offices , shops , garages , hotels , etc. ) which will clearly advertise themselves as a point of sale and the vouchers should then be displayed in the car windscreens . |
| 32 | 1986 ) , the keeping of household pets where a child has asthma ( Franklin and Kahn , 1987 ) child labour in Nigeria ( Asogwa , 1986 ) and the mistaken diagnoses of abuse seen in themselves as a form of abuse ( Kirschner and Stein , 1985 ) . |
| 33 | However , they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design . |
| 34 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 35 | They wore immaculate clothes , regarded themselves as an élite and behaved like gods . |
| 36 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 37 | Though they were attributed to the Moors , the Moors themselves regarded the irrigation works themselves as an inheritance from a previous Christian civilization ; age-old , they represent a degree of social organization and co-operation that compels admiration . |
| 38 | But this in no way negates the importance of understanding the role which all these people play in the context of curriculum change , for while the picture of an obscurantist inspector or manager eager to discourage the innovative teacher is one which is often conjured up by teachers themselves as an excuse for inaction , it can be all too true . |
| 39 | Although most agency workers are taxed and pay social security contributions as if they were dependent employees , and most think of themselves as an employee of the agency for which they work , the relationship between them and these agencies has been deemed not to be one of employment . |
| 40 | Human beings possess the ability to experience subjectively the objects in their environment and themselves as an object in it . |
| 41 | That is , it originally comprised the band of Dionysus-worshippers who , in their ecstatic state , saw themselves as the god 's goatlike attendants , fictitious nature spirits in a fictitious natural state . |
| 42 | They shared the community 's commitment to education and saw themselves as the vanguard of it . |
| 43 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |
| 44 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |
| 45 | The Khmers Rouges had previously designated themselves as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea . |
| 46 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |
| 47 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 48 | As when you act for a seller or mortgagor , add any other documents which suggest themselves as the matter proceeds . |
| 49 | They were both arrogant , both lechers , both saw themselves as the answer to all the problems on earth . |
| 50 | Visitors will be encouraged to have-a-go themselves as the club , now in its fourth season , dispels the myth that croquet is a genteel Sunday afternoon past-time . |
| 51 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 52 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 53 | LINFIELD fans should prepare themselves for a bout of double vision at Windsor Park next week . |
| 54 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 55 | They talked quietly amongst themselves for a while of inconsequential things , content to watch the fire and feel the tiredness in their muscles ; then rolled themselves in their cloaks and slept . |
| 56 | Two laboratory studies which attempted to assess the effects of real-life stresses on dreams used patients either awaiting major surgery or undergoing group therapy , in which they had to prepare themselves for a session devoted entirely to their own problems . |
| 57 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 58 | In the previous section we have seen how public figures often write about themselves for a variety of reasons — one of which could just be straight-forward self-centredness . |
| 59 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 60 | A lot of people say that cavers are mad , that they cause a lot of trouble getting themselves stuck , and that they would n't do it themselves for a gold onion . |