Example sentences of "themselves and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the trouble escalates , media coverage concentrates on the riots themselves and not the injustice that caused them . |
| 2 | Despite his age and his narrow election as Chancellor he soon established himself firmly in Bonn , dominating his new Cabinet , whilst his political opponents were weak : the non-coalition parties in the Bundestag were divided among themselves and neither the Communists nor the various conservative groups proved willing to combine with the SPD , whose socialist programme alienated many . |
| 3 | In this controlled clinical trial , presumably it is important to test drugs on patients themselves and presumably the important feature , as you mentioned , is that they are volunteers , rather than people who are buying it , the medicines , in good faith with the expectation they 've already been tested ? |
| 4 | He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps . |
| 5 | Since the outbreak of the war Harriet had rather prided herself that she and Tom had been able , for the most part , to manage their property by themselves and certainly the employment of any domestic help at this juncture seemed a luxury to which she was almost ashamed to admit . |
| 6 | Today , the specialist pop and rock rags no longer have the subject to themselves and only the most conservative publications on the news-stands fail to acknowledge that some subsection of the now sprawling rock field is of interest to their readers . |