Example sentences of "themselves [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 2 | They all think themselves emperors in that place . ’ |
| 3 | Although nearly all the industrialised nations have set themselves targets for stabilising or reducing carbon dioxide emissions , the US , by far the biggest emitter , has consistently refused . |
| 4 | And biblical material is composed of words ( themselves translations of other words ) which attempt to convey ideas . |
| 5 | Although the presence and stature of labouring poets within public discourse are themselves questions of considerable interest , this group of poets may be judged by their actual contribution to that discourse . |
| 6 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 7 | The WIC sent out its mainly middle-class women investigators to see for themselves conditions of working women and suggest and promote improvements . |
| 8 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 9 | If this is so , these varieties must incorporate within themselves sets of recurrent and distinctive norms , through which they can be characterized , but which do not usually coincide with the norms of the standard language . |
| 10 | as a matter of policy , all ten of the home-school liaison assistants are themselves members of ethnic minority groups . |
| 11 | Over the years many men have come to my clinic because they have considered themselves failures in one vital respect . |
| 12 | One of those old beldames who like to proclaim themselves keepers of secret mysteries . |
| 13 | It is through this means that women can pull and attract others and draw into themselves energies from external sources . |
| 14 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |