Example sentences of "[noun] themselves [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is worth taking a brief look at McLuhan himself ( 1962 ; 1964 ; 1967 ) , partly because his ideas have been adopted explicitly by some writers on popular music but also because in the period of his greatest fame ( the mid- and late 1960s ) some of these ideas sediment Ed themselves into the common assumptions of quite widely , if usually implicitly , held views on culture and technology . |
2 | In the preparation of the details themselves in the various shops , the underlying idea of continuous progression from one operation to another was adopted . |
3 | It is a short step from such a view to ‘ blaming ’ older people themselves for the fiscal dilemma , another version of blaming the victim . |
4 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
5 | Not only are the pub interiors themselves of the nondescript , open-plan kind , but the barn to the rear has been wholly mutilated . |
6 | The object of parody in Between is not so much theories and belief systems themselves as the linguistic manoeuvres by which they attempt to convince . |