Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 2 | Racial and economic tensions related to the immigration issue also manifested themselves during the early months of 1990 . |
| 3 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 4 | Two guards on skis had infiltrated themselves between the high wire and the high wooden fence and covered the growing mass of prisoners with their rifles . |
| 5 | Once the momentum of marketing is established the ideas and actions become almost self-generating and weave themselves through the normal contacts and business of the day . |
| 6 | Thus the Somme offensive dragged on until , with the advent of winter rains in mid-November , when the exhausted , hungry men could no longer drag themselves through the deepening mud , it died away in disappointment and despair . |
| 7 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 8 | These manifest themselves as the impulsive gravitational waves ( 15.10 ) which may be considered to be generated by the collision . |
| 9 | The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin . |
| 10 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 11 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 12 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 13 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 16 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
| 17 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 18 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 19 | The delegates , again often chosen by public meetings , saw themselves as the aroused mass of principled antislavery , cutting across the political and religious differences of their communities . |
| 20 | In other words , the document is a statement of a problem from which the writers clearly regard themselves as the innocent sufferers . |
| 21 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 22 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 23 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 24 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 25 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 26 | The object of parody in Between is not so much theories and belief systems themselves as the linguistic manoeuvres by which they attempt to convince . |
| 27 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 28 | Many have a clear sense of class , recognizing themselves as the exploited , subjected to the petty extortion and corruption of the market administration , the police and other security forces . |
| 29 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 30 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |