Example sentences of "themselves [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 2 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 3 | Indeed , the more recent history of pension provision shows more concern on the part of both governments and occupational pension providers to increase widows ' benefits ( themselves symbolic of the financial dependence of wives in marriage ) , than to help women build up their own occupational pension records . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Echoing another observation by Freud , the authors of the recent study note that ‘ The superego in its function as a pilot seems to utilize internalized verbal prohibitions ’ , and point out that the efficacy of verbal regulation seems to be linked to the time-table of brain growth , and in particular to the maturation of the frontal lobes , themselves one of the major cerebral acquisitions produced by the process of neoteny in man : ‘ The frontal lobe comprises about one third of the hemispheric surface ; it includes the primary motor areas , the premotor areas , and frontal eye fields . ’ |