Example sentences of "[noun] themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the confusion about what action can be legally taken — and so politically sensitive is the subject of badgers — that the NFU 's policy adviser for the south-west region , Anthony Gibson , advises members to take no action themselves other than to hand the reports over to the ADAS wildlife biology unit . |
| 2 | And the brutal honesty of his observations is sometimes lost in the attempt to make the words themselves beautiful . |
| 3 | On the table before the mirror stood half a dozen wigs on red velvet stands , the wigs themselves all Barbie-doll perfect and in colours unknown to nature . |
| 4 | The argument is extended to the work of the units themselves each of which is felt ‘ to have its own strengths ’ and which , at a time when some pressure was being exerted by the LEA , should be permitted to retain its distinctive and separate character . |
| 5 | People seek the benefits that products provide , rather than the products or brands themselves Specific products or brands should therefore be differentiated by those combinations of benefits and costs sought by a particular set of potential customers . |
| 6 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 7 | ‘ It illustrates the gulf that is developing and the problems clubs lower down the scale have keeping themselves viable on a full-time basis . |
| 8 | Psychologists themselves present method as their discipline 's defining feature : ‘ If psychology is a science of mental life — of the mind , of conscious experience — then it must develop and defend a special methodology ’ ( Skinner quoted in Alladin 1988 : 111–12 ) . |
| 9 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 10 | In the stations themselves greater attention was now given to the problems of circulation , the control , movement , and organization of great numbers of people . |
| 11 | The Marre Committee concluded that unless the professions themselves initiated change , it would be forced upon them . |
| 12 | It leaves a gap at the very centre of the knowledge which the rational procedures of the sciences are continually expanding , with nothing to fill it except deduction from principles themselves ungrounded , or habit , or religious or political emotion , or the Existentialist 's anguished leap in the dark , or doing as one pleases , or as convention or fashion pleases . |
| 13 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 14 | The Haywards say they now consier themselves lucky … |
| 15 | Letting Service — aimed at Landlords who wish to manage the properties themselves Equivalent to 4 weeks ' rent |
| 16 | Now , with complex machines themselves capable of performing routine jobs , education concentrates to a great extent on equipping young men and women for life , and living better and more creatively . |
| 17 | The Middle Neolithic saw the introduction of axe and double-axe forms , but the battle-axe people themselves preferred perforated disc forms . |
| 18 | All fish love eating tubifex and will gorge themselves silly on the worm . |
| 19 | Instead of trying to eliminate neural centres the aim is to sever the pathways that connect them , leaving the centres themselves intact ( Geschwind 1965 ) . |
| 20 | I am not going to write to the Colleges themselves one week with bureaucratic non-talk and then come into the clear the following week … if there is going to be an outburst I believe the sooner we get it over the better . |
| 21 | But to write the word themselves Chinese children — those spoilt and individualistic ‘ little emperors ’ ? — will practice writing individual strokes for hours on end until they can get this horizontal or that vertical line exactly right . |
| 22 | Contemporaries , even the men themselves involved in heated arguments over matters of ceremonial , were often well aware that most of these questions were trivial . |
| 23 | Formative , in providing information which teachers can use in deciding how a pupil 's learning should be taken forward and in giving the pupils themselves clear and understandable targets and feedback about their achievement . |
| 24 | The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions . |
| 25 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 26 | Recently there has been speculation that the generally disappointing effects of hypotensive drug therapy in mildly hypertensive subjects may result from the deleterious metabolic side-effects of the agents themselves Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group ( 1982 ) . |
| 27 | Hired to get evidence on the mistress of an older man who has supposedly cheated on him , Diquet and his girl-Friday Leone find themselves involved in a strange plot that involves wartime collaboration and a fabulous diamond . |
| 28 | In some cases we may wish to compare the categories themselves such as the advanced/underdeveloped dichotomy , in order to illuminate any evolutionary aspects of industrial relations . |
| 29 | As the leading firms prepare to meet the challenge of the national lottery , the irony is that the first revamp of the format in 24 years will make the pools themselves more of a lottery . |