Example sentences of "themselves the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would tell other girls who suspect they have an exercise problem similar to mine to ask themselves the following questions : Do I take more exercise than is necessary for health and fitness ? |
| 2 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 3 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 4 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 5 | Sincere though the ideals of Lenin and his allies may have been , Marxism served as a mystifying ideology , masking even from themselves the real ambitions of the intelligentsia . |
| 6 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 7 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 8 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 9 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 10 | If it could be shown that , as some holists contend , those individual actions , decisions and choices which are appealed to in explanation , are themselves the causal outcomes of various larger states of social affairs , then individuals would not be of any special interest . |
| 11 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 12 | None the less the opposite argument is equally shaky ; it would be frightening to imagine teachers embarking on the planning of a term 's work or even one single-period unit without asking themselves the simplest questions : " Why am I doing this ? |
| 13 | There they will hire a minibus and drive themselves the 1,000 kilometres overland to Bophuthatswana . |
| 14 | In the classroom , cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying . |
| 15 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 16 | … at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work . |
| 17 | In the performances themselves the dramatic signals were dominant ; in the organization of the festival the religious signals were dominant . |
| 18 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 19 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |