Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used . |
| 2 | Japanese company Dit Co Ltd was showing some preliminary versions of two products developed by itself in the network field — software yet unnamed that enables a Unix machine to be used as a Macintosh back-up device over a TCP-IP network , and an FTP protocol engine which is ready for use in Macintosh applications . |
| 3 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 4 | It is uncertain , however , that the motives ascribed to themselves by MacRoberts and MacRoberts are common to others . |
| 5 | But he was old and tired ; he 's had youngsters falling over themselves to be taught by him . |
| 6 | The elder Blackwell 's religious commitment was at least as strong as his son 's ; he seems to have died in some poverty , having previously calculated the debts owing to himself at nearly £36,000 ( Bodleian MS Rawl . |
| 7 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 8 | In Latvia Roman Catholics refer to themselves as Poles . |
| 9 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 10 | But whether or not one can establish the existence of general limits to the authority of governments , the normal justification thesis invites a piecemeal approach to the question of the authority of governments , which yields the conclusion that the extent of governmental authority varies from individual to individual , and is more limited than the authority governments claim for themselves in the case of most people . |
| 11 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 12 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 13 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 14 | I learned enormous quantities to say to myself in bed at night . |
| 15 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 16 | Quality system procedure two , talks about how the management team pick up suggestions made by yourselves through Q S P Three , and set about making decisions for improvement of the group 's quality system , the service that we provide to our clients . |
| 17 | The Romanies stick to themselves in their own little groups . |
| 18 | The monsters argued among themselves in monster language , tails lashing . |
| 19 | Its members referred to themselves as Nazareans . |
| 20 | Founded in 1878 , the CBS was one of a network of societies which in those days provided not only private financial insurance against adversity but social fellowship in regional lodges , where members referred to themselves as " brothers " . |
| 21 | We all want basic comforts , but there are intelligent ways of producing these comforts and intelligent limits to impose on oneself in order not to foul the nest for everybody else . |
| 22 | ‘ Let Navigators gossip among themselves like fishwives , ’ he said sharply . |
| 23 | game in which the players stand by themselves at different distances ( e.g. one at each corner of a room ) and one other player is placed in the middle . |
| 24 | That field is sport , where the East Germans think of themselves as a ‘ world power ’ , second only to the Soviet Union and the US . |
| 25 | Revisions of " untidy " utterances tend in themselves to be untidy too . |
| 26 | These men referred to themselves as the ‘ Hollywood Hellraisers ’ . |
| 27 | Especially well known is Willis 's Learning to Labour , a study of cultures which working class children construct for themselves at school . |
| 28 | Its 200-page Environmental Management for Hotels : The Industry Guide to Best Practice , to be launched on Mar 21 , points out that energy conservation measures pay for themselves through cost saving and hence improve the business ' competitiveness ; that the pressure is on worldwide to demonstrate commitment to the sustainable development of tourism ; that staff will want to work for companies with good environmental practices ; that concern for the environment is shared by an increasing number of those involved in hotels ; and that a good track record in the field helps when developing new ventures or projecting a brand image . |
| 29 | Experts say an analysis of the figures shows women are more likely than men to lie to themselves about the amount they drink . |
| 30 | The fact that in 1992 only 37 per cent of voters think of themselves as Labour supporters but that on Thursday only 35 per cent actually voted Labour indicates that the party was scarcely able to poll its ‘ core ’ strength . |