Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Sincere though the ideals of Lenin and his allies may have been , Marxism served as a mystifying ideology , masking even from themselves the real ambitions of the intelligentsia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
| 6 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 7 | In the period leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the National Curriculum , such qualitative gains were in themselves an essential resource . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under the terms of the Treaty , the parties ‘ establish among themselves a European Union , hereinafter called ‘ the Union ’ ’ ; . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name . |
| 15 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 16 | Tennis World readers Mr and Mrs Lower , from Chesterfield , came nearest to marking the exact location of the ball in three separate challenges and therefore win for themselves an all expenses trip to the fabulous Carnivals Crystal Palace Hotel in the Bahamas , courtesy of Carnivals and American Airlines . |
| 17 | In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones . |
| 18 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 19 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 20 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 21 | In the classroom , cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 26 | 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 . |