Example sentences of "the [noun] themselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead of storing the values themselves in the hash table , each table entry becomes the head of a linked list . |
| 3 | At a rave in Stafford 's Bingley Hall last month , Altern-8 launched an offensive by proclaiming rock music dead , flying in an African witch doctor to ‘ cleanse the air of rock ’ with an ancient incantation , and rounding off the ceremony themselves with the sacrifice of a Fender Stratocaster . |
| 4 | This development parallels ( not accidentally ) the enormous growth of the TNCs themselves since the 1950s , both in scope and geographical spread . |
| 5 | In the preparation of the details themselves in the various shops , the underlying idea of continuous progression from one operation to another was adopted . |
| 6 | There is a clearly perceptible change of attitude by the public and the people themselves to the relatively affluent and healthy newly retired : the Jollies Jet-Setting Oldies with Lots of Loot ) and the Woopies ( Well-Off Older People ) . |
| 7 | This chapter considers the relationships between the partners themselves during the course of their business . |
| 8 | The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers . |
| 9 | I have even known poachers remove the thorns themselves in the afternoon of their own planned expedition . |
| 10 | It 's the children themselves in the homes who 'd graffitied the walls , broken up the fabric of the homes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures . |
| 14 | 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 . |