Example sentences of "[noun] themselves [prep] [art] [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 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 3 | The ministers involved recognize that MPs are being well briefed and though they will not necessarily concede directly they encounter a good case , they will usually move the amendment themselves at a later stage . |
| 4 | What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes . |
| 5 | This development parallels ( not accidentally ) the enormous growth of the TNCs themselves since the 1950s , both in scope and geographical spread . |
| 6 | In the preparation of the details themselves in the various shops , the underlying idea of continuous progression from one operation to another was adopted . |
| 7 | It is a short step from such a view to ‘ blaming ’ older people themselves for the fiscal dilemma , another version of blaming the victim . |
| 8 | But Arsenal , desperate to put together a winning sequence themselves after a dismal start , will be in a tough mood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not only are the pub interiors themselves of the nondescript , open-plan kind , but the barn to the rear has been wholly mutilated . |
| 11 | The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers . |
| 12 | It was observed that the theoretical and practical commitment of local authorities themselves to training-the overall ‘ training climate ’ — with its implications for availability of resources both in the library department and elsewhere in the authority , can have a significant effect on the extent of training undertaken . |
| 13 | As Pressman reports , Woonerf streets exhibit a stronger social cohesiveness , much brought about by the involvement of the residents themselves in a sophisticated process of planning their own surroundings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More important , perhaps , was the emergence in the Baltic republics themselves of an open , widely supported and coordinated nationalist movement taking the form of ‘ popular fronts ’ ( or in Lithuania , Sajudis ) . |