Example sentences of "declared themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NP organizers declared themselves delighted with the breadth of support for the government . |
| 2 | Just as the DoE lost its early struggles to get the Electricity Board to accept pollution controls , it fell to the Forestry Commission ( FC ) to pronounce on the state of the nation 's forests , although environment scientists declared themselves convinced of the risk as early as 1982 . |
| 3 | Last season , an overwhelming number of players declared themselves unavailable for the competition , a sure indicator that they set little score on the provincial matches and they think the national selectors do likewise . |
| 4 | Although environmentalists declared themselves disappointed at the outcome of the meeting , they acknowledged that substantial progress towards some form of comprehensive protection for Antarctica 's environment had been achieved . |
| 5 | Davies boost RUGBY LEAGUE : Welsh stars Jonathan Davies and Kevin Ellis yesterday gave their country a big lift when they declared themselves fit for Sunday 's British Coal international against France in Swansea . |
| 6 | Gathered in a city stadium , they declared themselves unconvinced by promises of improvements made by senior officials despatched from Bucharest to address them following warning strikes on Aug. 20 organized by the independent local Infratirea ( " Fraternity " ) trade union federation . |
| 7 | The staff of Pravda , the leading Soviet newspaper , declared themselves independent of the Communist Party and published their first non-partisan issue on 31 August . |
| 8 | The staff denied the charge and declared themselves independent of any political party or movement . |
| 9 | Two UDF leaders , who were also present , Pierre Méhaignerie , president of the Centre of Social Democrats ( Centre des démocrates sociaux — CDS ) and François Léotard , president of the Republican Party ( Parti républicain — PR ) , the largest group within the UDF , declared themselves ready to " break the structures " of their respective formations . |