Example sentences of "themselves [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 2 | Racial and economic tensions related to the immigration issue also manifested themselves during the early months of 1990 . |
| 3 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 4 | Two guards on skis had infiltrated themselves between the high wire and the high wooden fence and covered the growing mass of prisoners with their rifles . |
| 5 | Once the momentum of marketing is established the ideas and actions become almost self-generating and weave themselves through the normal contacts and business of the day . |
| 6 | Thus the Somme offensive dragged on until , with the advent of winter rains in mid-November , when the exhausted , hungry men could no longer drag themselves through the deepening mud , it died away in disappointment and despair . |
| 7 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 8 | The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin . |
| 9 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 10 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 11 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 12 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 13 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 14 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
| 15 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 16 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 17 | The delegates , again often chosen by public meetings , saw themselves as the aroused mass of principled antislavery , cutting across the political and religious differences of their communities . |
| 18 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 19 | In other words , the document is a statement of a problem from which the writers clearly regard themselves as the innocent sufferers . |
| 20 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 21 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 22 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 23 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 24 | The object of parody in Between is not so much theories and belief systems themselves as the linguistic manoeuvres by which they attempt to convince . |
| 25 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 26 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 27 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 28 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 29 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 30 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |