Example sentences of "[verb] for themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 2 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 3 | Looks , of course , are n't everything , but they do have a bearing when it comes to choosing an instrument , and the Carlton 's sales figures may speak for themselves in the months to come . |
| 4 | AMERICANS have decided for themselves at the polls now it 's your turn to vote , vote , vote for the winners of the 5th Whitbread Scouseology Awards . |
| 5 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 6 | Members choose what they wish to insure and decide for themselves on the sums they insure . |
| 7 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 8 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 9 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 10 | But whether or not one can establish the existence of general limits to the authority of governments , the normal justification thesis invites a piecemeal approach to the question of the authority of governments , which yields the conclusion that the extent of governmental authority varies from individual to individual , and is more limited than the authority governments claim for themselves in the case of most people . |
| 11 | For those who want to cater for themselves in the fully equipped kitchenettes , there 's a supermarket right opposite the apartments . |
| 12 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 13 | They would then have an incentive to seek out wild foods when foraging for themselves during the day . |
| 14 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 15 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |