Example sentences of "themselves the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 2 | This , however , will not be tolerated even by those who call themselves the centre , and a major split will become unavoidable . |
| 3 | By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications . |
| 4 | Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London . |
| 5 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 6 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |
| 7 | These already existing ideas and values are , however , themselves the product of previous encounters and answers to the challenge of nature . |
| 8 | English scholars , all classicists or ex-classicists , hurried to catch up and prove themselves the equals of the Germans in philological and textual skill . |
| 9 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 10 | Nor are viewers left to make for themselves the link between the ‘ nation of arch fanatics led by an arch fanatic ’ that confronted The Young Mr Pitt ( 1942 ) and Britain 's contemporary enemies . |
| 11 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 12 | They called themselves the Wood-Winters . |
| 13 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 14 | On the other hand they are too exposed to allow themselves the Costa Rican solution of doing without armies altogether . |
| 15 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |
| 16 | Other executives had already asked themselves the same question . |
| 17 | For a moment there was silence , as the others asked themselves the same worrying questions . |
| 18 | In minds less critical and less sophisticated than Augustine 's , relics soon became themselves the seats of holy power , God 's preferred channels for miraculous action . |
| 19 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 20 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | However , I do feel that girls like Alison need long-term professional therapy , not just drugs and brief hospitalisation , to help them learn to ‘ feed ’ themselves — give themselves the things they need , such as food or privacy or rest and relaxation — without feeling guilty , and to recognise what these hungers and desires are . |
| 23 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |
| 24 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 25 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 26 | Amongst themselves the Zuwaya did not divide into classes , nor did any inter-tribal division mark a class division . |
| 27 | If it is to work properly , there must be a number of special protein and RNA molecules present , but these molecules are themselves the products of an earlier decoding process . |
| 28 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 29 | From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research . |
| 30 | When the parents saw for themselves the improvement in their children , their own prejudices were overcome . |