Example sentences of "themselves and their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families , which essentially means women , already provide massive , unpaid , largely unrecognized care and it is vital that policies of decentralization and community care do not too readily shift an even greater burden on to both the elderly themselves and their caring relatives . |
| 2 | These mothers had built a cocoon around themselves and their handicapped child which , while keeping away the hurtful comments , wrapped them in with their pain . |
| 3 | It also accounts for the extraordinary ability of shoppers to select from a huge array those goods most appropriate to themselves and their close friends or relatives . |
| 4 | But it 's all water under the bridge for this season and Linfield must now concentrate on bridging the gap between themselves and their Danish visitors . |
| 5 | A never-ending stream of people kept climbing over the sides and lowering themselves and their tremendous baggage into the sea of bodies . |
| 6 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 7 | But then to us they all had the same accent — they were just Yanks , chewing gum , blocking our paths wherever we went , aggravatingly sure of themselves and their instant appeal to all females who had n't actually got one foot in the grave . |
| 8 | They clearly regarded themselves and their working methods in a different light — witness the frequent attempts to break into the Schudi-Kirckman duopoly in the harpsichords of Faulkner , John Hitchcock and Baker Harris . |
| 9 | In themselves and their congestive complaints they are worse ( < ) heat and better ( > ) cold ( like Apis , Pulsatilla etc . ) |
| 10 | The last point about the relationship between farmers themselves and their natural environment concerns the production and preparation of food ( including the cooking of it ) . |
| 11 | These secret services become a law unto themselves and their very secrecy insulates them from inspection or criticism . |
| 12 | Only if this is done will older people be able to make choices and reach decisions about retirement which are appropriate to them , and which they can thereafter justify both to themselves and their social critics . |
| 13 | Commonly enough , melodies are accompanied by harmonies which create atmospheric colour , not through any specific movement of parts ( i.e. rhythmic designs ) but through the beauty of the harmonies themselves and their special relationship with the melody . |
| 14 | The knowledge the teacher has , or the team has , of the students themselves and their particular aptitudes , interests and needs , can at this stage be related to and integrated with the chosen theme . |
| 15 | ‘ Hookers owe it to themselves and their loved ones to refuse to play if crouch-touch pause-engage is n't being enforced ’ , he said . |
| 16 | Expectant mothers who come into close contact with ewes face a slight risk of infection to themselves and their unborn child . |
| 17 | When our children grow up , we no longer make the decisions for them , but accept the decisions they make for themselves and their own families , and we must do it as constructively and cheerfully as we can . |
| 18 | This creativity is explored here in the sense of poetical creativity : the words of the poem describe themselves and their own genesis . |
| 19 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 20 | Again , in erm , in animal populations what studies of sexual behaviour actually shows is that individuals are not reproducing the species for the benefit of the species , they 're reproducing themselves and their own genes as fast as they possibly can , given whatever other constraints may be operating . |
| 21 | Though the elite may have to use ‘ political formulae ’ ( Mosca 's term ) to preserve popular illusions about their rule , they must nevertheless be clear-sighted and purposeful about themselves and their own capacities and , of course , about their own membership of a group holding power and united in this way . |
| 22 | King of the Slums ' cast of losers , survivors and sharpers turn their disappointment against themselves and their own kind . |
| 23 | Until Palestinians learnt to rely upon themselves and their own productivity , implying a withdrawal of both custom and labour from the Israeli sector , there could be no hope of liberation . |
| 24 | The British are not in any sense unique , though they may be an extreme example , in their preoccupation with themselves and their own ways . |
| 25 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |
| 26 | While these changes do not alone amount to a decisive shift in the social and political culture , they none the less have a crucial role in shaping people 's feelings about themselves and their own worth . |