Example sentences of "themselves [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |
| 2 | Spartak have proved themselves the masters of away goals and just one tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool 's hopes . |
| 3 | Spartak have proved themselves the masters of scoring away goals and just one strike tonight will seriously jeopardise Liverpool 's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals . |
| 4 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 5 | The Picts could see for themselves the benefits and in doing so , the Romans hoped , would cease their war-like activities and come to heel . |
| 6 | The present churches are right to be concerned that many do not give themselves the opportunity to grow in any faith because apathy and false gods have moved into the vacuum that exists instead of a soul . |
| 7 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 8 | Calling themselves the Sinead Brigade , about two dozen people from different activist organisations protested outside the cathedral as the singer 's namesake , Cardinal John J O'Connor , said Mass inside . |
| 9 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 10 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 11 | Prescriptions presuppose interpretations , but actions on the basis of such prescriptions become themselves the subject of interpretation . |
| 12 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |
| 13 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 14 | The authors point to the lawyers ' success in reproducing for themselves the conditions of private practice and its implications for other departments and for the workings of local democracy . |
| 15 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 16 | As the experience of most of his knights throughout the poem reveals , they contain within themselves the opposite of their virtue and only through ordered self-control can they turn their powers to good . |
| 17 | For informal workers who genuinely do work for themselves the freedom of being your own boss does not often amount to much amid growing competition and soaring inflation . |
| 18 | Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test . |
| 19 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 20 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 21 | Unless the citizens of a State put before themselves the principles of duty , self sacrifice , self control and continence … the life of the State must be short and precarious . |
| 22 | Answer guide : This is something the student has not been exposed to 80 it is useful to let them discuss how they would treat the transaction in detail so they can work out for themselves the principles involved . |
| 23 | He never for example suggests that women should be allowed into the inner courts of the temple , or take upon themselves the obligations of prayer laid on men . |
| 24 | In the interviews themselves the topics sometimes came up in different sequences according to the way that the particular interview developed . |
| 25 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 26 | The home provides a safe and secure place for children to ask their biggest questions about faith and to discover for themselves the love of God in Jesus Christ . |
| 27 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 28 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 29 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 30 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |