Example sentences of "themselves [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio producers have to remind themselves each week that radio broadcasting is n't about selling records , but about entertaining an audience . |
| 2 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 3 | However , most respondents who were not themselves sole practitioners stopped well short of endorsing this argument although they were often inclined to the view that in choosing to practice in this way , sole principals should accept that the greater risk they represented to the profession should be reflected in increased contributions on their part to the Compensation and Indemnity Funds . |
| 4 | They did not create too great an economic burden ; they were not themselves economic measures . |
| 5 | The Marre Committee concluded that unless the professions themselves initiated change , it would be forced upon them . |
| 6 | What has yet to become an accepted methodology in the study of public administration is a perception of organizations , including those in the public sector , as being themselves political systems.l Organization theory , drawing primarily as ever on evidence from private firms and corporations , offers political interpretations of the internal structures and decisionmaking of large-scale organizations which the study of public administration has yet to take up in any systematic manner ( Walsh et al. |
| 7 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 8 | People seek the benefits that products provide , rather than the products or brands themselves Specific products or brands should therefore be differentiated by those combinations of benefits and costs sought by a particular set of potential customers . |
| 9 | In addition to the practice of self-help skills , all clients , in negotiation with the therapist , will set themselves specific homework tasks to be achieved before the next session . |
| 10 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 11 | Consultants were brought in to coach team leaders , themselves working members of the unit , who then passed on their new-found knowledge — the cascade concept . |
| 12 | The ‘ working class ’ collectivity is , in a sense , centred on manual industrial labour , at least for the adult male members of working class families , although ( a ) by no means all people who consider themselves working class are employed in that sphere and ( b ) a not insignificant minority of people employed in that sphere do not consider themselves working class . |
| 13 | The ‘ working class ’ collectivity is , in a sense , centred on manual industrial labour , at least for the adult male members of working class families , although ( a ) by no means all people who consider themselves working class are employed in that sphere and ( b ) a not insignificant minority of people employed in that sphere do not consider themselves working class . |
| 14 | The example , however , demonstrates the conceptual problems in devising such a scale since ‘ detachment ’ and ‘ context-dependency ’ are themselves culturally-loaded terms . |
| 15 | They give themselves strange names . |
| 16 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |
| 17 | Television commentators have given themselves dry throats telling viewers about the imp-like Mota who seems to float effortlessly to the front . |
| 18 | Around 180 per 100,000 Greenland males killed themselves that year . |
| 19 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |
| 20 | They found themselves rubbing shoulders with right-wing MPs , the same who in 1984 organised a million-strong demonstration in support of private schools and for the right of the parents to choose , and who today declare themselves staunch supporters of the state secular education system . |
| 21 | He and Bouilhet play at imagining themselves old men , patients in some hospice for incurables : ancients who sweep the streets and babble to one another of that happy time when they were both thirty and walked all the way to La Roche-Guyon . |
| 22 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 23 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 24 | When he first returned , my friends on the surgical side had made themselves fresh caps daily and spent hours on their faces before going on duty . |
| 25 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 26 | And when we see these attempts as themselves social processes , we can continue the inquiry , instead of cutting it short . |
| 27 | This alternative approach , instead of looking for polarities and constructing rigid distinctions in intellectual development with which to correlate similarly reified literacy practices , recognises these literacy practices as themselves social products , no more isolable from the political and ideological context than are the ‘ scientific ’ achievements that Goody would associate with them . |
| 28 | There was an emphasis on the need for women to be confident , to set themselves high standards , to believe in themselves whatever the consequences . |
| 29 | People are encouraged to set themselves high standards in order for Whitbread , in turn , to offer its customers a high standard of service . |
| 30 | No one should be asking them ‘ True or false ? ’ : they fool themselves this way , so they can easily fool us . |