Example sentences of "of themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 2 | Although encircled by the Dwarfs , half starved and weary from the march , the Orcs gave a good account of themselves by fighting their way out of the trap and out-distancing the Dwarfs . |
| 3 | CBHPs aim to help build self-reliant communities in health , defining a truly self-reliant community as one that is ‘ built on the peoples ’ capacity to take care of themselves by tapping and developing local and external human and material resources ’ . |
| 4 | The problems of agency are of themselves by no means insignificant in the professional preoccupations of any lawyer endowed with a respectable commercial practice . |
| 5 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |