Example sentences of "[be] themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Within the system of government , the increased numbers of bureaucrats and officials involved in welfare and public-service provision were themselves a powerful lobby for more state activity . |
| 2 | This is a crucial stage of development from that in which — in the earlier stages substantially , in the later stages residually — artists were themselves a specific form of social organization . |
| 3 | In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling — as in a family . |
| 4 | ‘ But the Dharjees were once members of the Nizari Ismailis , who are themselves a breakaway sect of the Shiite Muslims . |
| 5 | Synthetic data which are themselves a GIS-derived product may be the most difficult to deal with . |
| 6 | Lemmas 1 and 2 tell us that the semantic values of the elements of unc are themselves a directed set under |