Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the results of group marriage was that people shared amongst themselves a large number of spouses . |
| 2 | However , rather than having the guests whispering conspiratorially amongst themselves the unmentionable secret that this is a second marriage , some speakers prefer a more direct and honest approach . |
| 3 | The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world . |
| 4 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
| 5 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 6 | In the period leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the National Curriculum , such qualitative gains were in themselves an essential resource . |
| 7 | The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae , published in various centres between 1605 and 1610 when he was in the service of the Brunswick court at Wolfenbuttel , are in themselves an astonishing monument of skill and industry . |
| 8 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the Treaty , the parties ‘ establish among themselves a European Union , hereinafter called ‘ the Union ’ ’ ; . |
| 10 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 11 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 12 | If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises . |
| 13 | In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name . |
| 14 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 15 | In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones . |
| 16 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 19 | Thus far , French princes — with the notable exception of the Norman king-duke — had been wary of claiming for themselves the peace-keeping function within their lands . |
| 20 | It was a shocking sight to see innocent little children chasing a Ball among their hot desires , burning like dangerous flowers in the grass , each couple shameless and oblivious , weaving around themselves a tight cocoon of lust and indifference to others . |