Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] themselves [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only through the players themselves that we got the news . |
| 2 | Gluing troubles arose , not only from the glues themselves but from other causes . |
| 3 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 4 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 5 | These products also demanded a large African labour force , both for the plantations themselves and for the roads and railways leading to the ports . |
| 6 | Likewise the increased accountability of heads to governors , created by the 1986 Education Act and expanded again in the Reform Act , means not only extra work but extra tensions both for the heads themselves and for their staffs . |
| 7 | The potential volatility of the markets and the multiplication of risk through gearing coupled with the complexity both of the transactions themselves and market procedures , mean that investors , particularly those with little experience , can be placed at considerable risk in the futures markets . |
| 8 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 9 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 10 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
| 11 | It is often claimed , both by the Victorians themselves and by subsequent historians of design , that the impetus towards the formulation of new standards of taste in the latter half of the century was provided by the negative example of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 12 | The first is for working parents , explaining the tax rules that apply when childcare is organised and paid for either by the parents themselves or their employers . |
| 13 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 14 | Where GPs offered treatment , two options were generally available , both of which involved the use of another drug usually accompanied by counselling either by the GPs themselves or , more frequently , by a voluntary counselling agency . |