Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] [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 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 3 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 4 | Racial and economic tensions related to the immigration issue also manifested themselves during the early months of 1990 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even these , during most of their existence , contain 46 ( each a replica of one of the 46 in the original fertilised ovum ) , but at the moment of final cell division into recognisable sperm or ova the chromosomes , in of dividing , distribute themselves between the two halves of the dividing cell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 12 | Mr Hardcastle : ‘ But they do n't regard themselves as a sectarian group either ? ’ |
| 13 | This latter undertaking was , however , independent of and severable from that of the shareholders and there was no reason why it should not be enforceable by the shareholders among themselves as a personal agreement that in no way fettered TBL in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 14 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 15 | The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state . |
| 16 | The three members of Odd Socks , who enact the tale based on the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 , introduced themselves as a 15-strong cast of Elizabethan actors who have lost 12 members en route to Framlingham . |
| 17 | To rectify this and to make sure the Concert Halls can promote themselves as a fully-fledged venue , the board has decided to embark on the final refurbishment step . |
| 18 | The proprietors style themselves as a Fawlty Towers Italian restaurant ! |
| 19 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 20 | This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit . |
| 21 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 22 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 23 | Whereas , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , Ukrainian subjects of the Habsburg Empire were beginning to think of themselves as a distinct ethnic group , Ukrainian subjects of the tsar appeared not to do so . |
| 24 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 25 | Indeed , when the German Communists reconstituted themselves as a political party ( the DKP ) in October 1968 , the Bonn government saw no need to ban them , because orthodox Communists did not seem a threat . |
| 26 | Tynesiders see themselves as a seafaring people with all that implies . |
| 27 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 28 | They saw themselves as being responsible people who did not go on strike for trivial benefits such as a tea-break but , at the same time , also saw themselves as a little bit downtrodden , almost persecuted . |
| 29 | By and large the Nonconformist churches supported the war , destroying themselves as a significant political force in the process . |
| 30 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |