Example sentences of "for themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it .
2 They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception .
3 If the great mass of the people are to make a cultural democracy for themselves a prime objective must be the development of political awareness and action so that they can achieve command of their own culture and control of the socio-economic forces which affect it , surmounting the crises of a world of crises .
4 In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name .
5 The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds .
6 In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones .
7 In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues .
8 During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided .
9 Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer .
10 Thus far , French princes — with the notable exception of the Norman king-duke — had been wary of claiming for themselves the peace-keeping function within their lands .
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