Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Danish Government was able to distribute 300,000 copies of the Maastricht text through newsagents and libraries , who has decided here , or in Brussels , that the British public should not be allowed to find out for themselves during the election what the small print of the treaty contains ? |
| 2 | Though nocturnal , they will show themselves during the day if kept in a well-planted tank . |
| 3 | They would then have an incentive to seek out wild foods when foraging for themselves during the day . |
| 4 | This chapter considers the relationships between the partners themselves during the course of their business . |
| 5 | Yet if the subjects were required to repeat the alphabet to themselves during the task this introduced a bias in gap detection favouring the right visual field . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , some of my own ideas would have been useless and other ideas would have suggested themselves during the interviews . |
| 7 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 8 | They will make no move to attack or talk to the adventurers , but merely interpose themselves between the adventurers and the path to the Castle . |
| 9 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 10 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 11 | Feverfew , nasturtiums and chamomile will also seed themselves between the cracks but at this point one can be back to the weeding situation and the paving loses its character of precision and smoothness . |
| 12 | to give children the opportunity to express themselves through a variety of approaches including descriptive , imaginative and creative poetry and prose . |
| 13 | Two men , each carrying a heavy shield on his left arm , rushed as storm troops at the supposed criminal gunmen , firing themselves through a slit in the shield . |
| 14 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 15 | They drive themselves through the water in the same way as their ancestors , by the sinuous motion of the rear half of their bodies and the powerful thrash of their tails . |
| 16 | Infants become water-friendly through songs and exercises ; for example , floating toys encourage the children to stretch and pull themselves through the water . |
| 17 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 18 | Nobody throws themselves through the air without my permission , ’ muttered the Headmaster turning to Endill . |
| 19 | The essential point , if there is to be proper democratic accountability , is that there must be a clearly defined authority whose judgement and power can not ultimately be contradicted other than by the citizens themselves through the ballot box . |
| 20 | CURRY lovers who regularly put themselves through the pain of eating hot , spicy food may be physically addicted to the ‘ high ’ it gives , according to new research . |
| 21 | It was the biggest comprehensive school in the area ( purpose-built , as the Head never tired of saying ) , and every morning two thousand pupils streamed into its gates , navy blue and yellow waves breaking over the grassy slopes , spreading themselves through the corridors , filling up the empty rooms . |
| 22 | People , he argued , evaluate themselves by viewing themselves through the eyes of others . |
| 23 | Constituting themselves as a Council of Action , the leaders called a Special Conference of labour movement organizations for August 13th , at which decisions would be taken to ‘ instruct their members to ‘ down tools ’ … ’ . |
| 24 | By contrast , if energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds can move through their own efforts into leadership positions in the key economic , political and administrative organizations , then they have little incentive to try to organize a collective effort with other non-elite groups to develop themselves as a counter-elite . |
| 25 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 26 | ( g ) Demergers The break-up of a firm after a failed merger is not unknown ; sometimes it is not so much the result of any defect in the merger arrangements themselves as a change of circumstances ( eg an unexpected collapse in the volume of a particular type of work ) . |
| 27 | The mood has been very different from Labour 's controlled and skilfully-packaged press conferences , where Mr Kinnock and his shadow Cabinet colleagues have presented themselves as a government-in-waiting . |
| 28 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 29 | In Phil Alden Robinson 's adaptation of W.P.Kinsella 's book , Kevin Costner , Hollywood 's latest superstar , plays a New York boy with a hang-up about his father who has taken his wife ( Amy Madigan ) and daughter off to an Iowan farm to find themselves as a family . |
| 30 | That recent ideas about immunosuppressive drugs , auto-immune syndromes and tumour viruses should join together to express themselves as a disease seems only to be expected . |