Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some manufacturers had themselves licensed as credit brokers , and in their advertisements offered INTEREST FREE CREDIT to any who purchased their goods — ‘ over a period of 12 months APR 0% ’ . |
| 2 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 3 | What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one . |
| 4 | It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work . |
| 5 | Some members of these families have themselves experienced school failure and rejection as children . |
| 6 | ‘ All those people are out there struggling to cope , and in many cases have themselves become abusers — they know no better , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Many torturers had themselves suffered physical or sexual abuse as children . |
| 8 | It is as though the programme of Galileo and Locke , which involved discarding secondary qualities ( colour , taste , etc. ) in favour of primary qualities ( the quantities of classical mechanics ) , had been carried a stage further and these primary qualities had themselves become secondary to the property of potentia in which they all lay latent . |
| 9 | Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge predominated , and over 70 per cent of all masters had themselves attended HMC ( Headmasters ' Conference ) schools . |
| 10 | Many councils have themselves encouraged their growth — sometimes to avoid the implications of centrally imposed financial constraints and sometimes explicitly to make co-operation and partnerships with the voluntary and private sectors easier and less dependent on committee cycles and bureaucratic indecision . |
| 11 | More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition — indeed , even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe , but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC , a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens , but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals . |
| 12 | Bolivian miners marched on La Paz to protest and , when the government refused to meet them , 29 miners had themselves ‘ crucified ’ for 24 hours at the university . |
| 13 | Firstly the local tyrants , evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this , so th there is more to it than that , and secondly a revolution is not a dinner party or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery , it can not be so refined , so leisurely and gentle so temperate , kind , courteous , restrained and , and magnanimous . |
| 14 | The differences between those consequences have themselves varied over the years : the current position is set out at 15.11 . |
| 15 | Before Sam 's Son spawns further progeny we need to consider whether criminal authors have themselves become the victims of this new and draconian confiscation legislation . |
| 16 | Soviet officials have themselves consistently indicated that they have hopes in this respect . |
| 17 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 18 | He indicated that Soviet leaders had themselves to clarify their agenda for economic and political reform and added that " if they do … we can serve as a catalyst " . |
| 19 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |