Example sentences of "for themselves [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 2 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 3 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 4 | In comprehension , children might already be aware that different speakers used different terms for instances of the same category , bird and oiseau say , but they might still be unsure for themselves of the specific conditions under which a speaker used one or other term . |
| 5 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 6 | And they learn to care for themselves with a sociable cafe selling orange and biscuits before home-time every Friday . |
| 7 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 8 | People were creating jobs for themselves in a free market . |
| 9 | Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day . |
| 10 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 11 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 12 | Headhunters , who mostly have a fee based upon one-third of the first year 's guaranteed compensation , did very well for themselves in the 1980s by recruiting many of these people who can make an outstanding contribution in terms of revenue to their organisations . |
| 13 | As the situation within the institution worsens , staff develop their own ethos , practices and policies to make life easier and more bearable for themselves in an unpleasant and disheartening situation . |
| 14 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |