Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 2 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 3 | H LYRICAL Son ( the Spokesman ) and DJ Arm hail from North London , managing to distribute their debut 12″ themselves after a year on the shelf in search of a label . |
| 4 | ( g ) Demergers The break-up of a firm after a failed merger is not unknown ; sometimes it is not so much the result of any defect in the merger arrangements themselves as a change of circumstances ( eg an unexpected collapse in the volume of a particular type of work ) . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the social aspirations of the cultivators themselves in a climate where actual and potential production per man per year is less than in temperate countries , and such simple facts as the rapid rotting of produce , have to be taken into account . |
| 6 | This chapter considers the relationships between the partners themselves during the course of their business . |
| 7 | Dismissing the assault as a subject of no concern , Joyce turned upon the intellectuals themselves with a promise of what was in store for them . |
| 8 | After eighty yards we came to the rails and sleepers themselves under a foot of water leading onwards into the blackness . |
| 9 | But this in no way negates the importance of understanding the role which all these people play in the context of curriculum change , for while the picture of an obscurantist inspector or manager eager to discourage the innovative teacher is one which is often conjured up by teachers themselves as an excuse for inaction , it can be all too true . |
| 10 | I have even known poachers remove the thorns themselves in the afternoon of their own planned expedition . |
| 11 | Then also talking to children themselves about the death of others is a subject that adults shy away from very strongly . |
| 12 | Instead of storing the values themselves in the hash table , each table entry becomes the head of a linked list . |
| 13 | The Mercantile Marine Act 1850 was seen by the government as dealing with the other side of the problem — that of raising the standard of British seamen and seamanship and of protecting the seamen themselves from the tyranny of their officers and the depredations of the shipowners . |
| 14 | The pies were produced within the public houses themselves by the manager 's wife or catering assistant on the basis of recipes prepared by this department . |
| 15 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |
| 16 | Figure 21.8 shows that this energy is supplied by the outward transport of energy by the fluctuations themselves from the region where the production is large . |
| 17 | The essential point , if there is to be proper democratic accountability , is that there must be a clearly defined authority whose judgement and power can not ultimately be contradicted other than by the citizens themselves through the ballot box . |
| 18 | There were of course bitter disputes among the Bolsheviks themselves over the direction of Soviet policy after the immediate threat to their power receded , with furious denunciation from those who fell foul of the regime — most notably from Trotsky . |
| 19 | They are living under loose tented accommodation , some of them do n't have tented accommodation erm the , the country is hot , erm there is a shortage of water , not just at the camps but also to er Jordanian towns themselves at the moment . |