Example sentences of "[be] themselves [art] [adj] [noun] " 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
7 The potential of TQM initiatives to empower patients is demonstrated by an example from one of the West Midlands case study districts in the " Monitoring Managed Competition " research , who are themselves a national TQM demonstration project .
8 As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor .
9 If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute .
10 If it could be shown that , as some holists contend , those individual actions , decisions and choices which are appealed to in explanation , are themselves the causal outcomes of various larger states of social affairs , then individuals would not be of any special interest .
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