Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
| 2 | People who were involved in voluntary work , or community work , or with the unemployed workers ' centre , were also sort of being taken out of themselves more , and these things are important in and of themselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The conclusions which historians draw are in themselves controversial . |
| 5 | Some scientists have argued that these tanks in themselves present as great a risk of a catastrophic accident as any nuclear reactor . |
| 6 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 7 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 8 | These claims ( for example , that such-and-such a change is in progress ) are not in themselves quantitative claims : they are substantive and are independent of the quantitative method . |
| 9 | The work of business historians is providing growing evidence that large size and a bigger market were in themselves major objectives in merger activity , which interestingly tends to confirm certain hypotheses of earlier theoretical literature [ Cyert and March , 1963 ; Marris , 1964 ] . |
| 10 | But they are not in themselves lethal , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The competition Commissioner noted that although cooperation agreements between shipping companies are not in themselves illegal , once they result in elimination of effective competition they become illicit cartels . |
| 12 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 13 | But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments , unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine ( so far as it was understood ) , were not in themselves heretical . |
| 14 | Mr. Ashworth cited numerous cases in which the acts complained of were in themselves unlawful and in which there are many references to unlawful acts in the context of public nuisance . |
| 15 | In themselves such problems required no change in the administrative system . |
| 16 | But manager MacDonald knows that a fourth straight draw will help keep his side 's new-found belief in themselves intact . |
| 17 | Very few teachers are qualified to make assessments on the basis of linguistic criteria , and Rosen and Burgess 's categories were in themselves vague enough to be interpreted differently by different teachers . |
| 18 | For the purpose of this guide these terms will be used as they are in themselves descriptive of the types of valuation report we may be asked to prepare , although naturally our clients will not use this terminology . |
| 19 | The distinction could be between two sounds which are not in themselves difficult to distinguish , but the contrast may be difficult to hear because it is new . |
| 20 | What the author does n't say is that selection interviews , although the most commonly used method of assessing candidates , are in themselves prone to bias and prejudice . |
| 21 | The clinical signs of anaemia and perhaps diarrhoea in calves or young sheep are not in themselves pathognomonic of bunostomiasis . |
| 22 | This was concealed up to now by a few intuitive master strokes , the lucky results of risks that were in themselves unjustified , and the short-comings of our enemies . |
| 23 | These are all in themselves heavy penalties and there is no reason why the judge should not impose the maximum in a suitable case . |
| 24 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 25 | Were they in themselves corrupt ? |
| 26 | The topics which caused most concern were in themselves unexceptional . |
| 27 | The scenic elements in Corolla , Angels Margarit 's solo dance work which receives its British premiere as part of New Moves this week , are not in themselves remarkable . |
| 28 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 29 | Nor is there any recognition of the fact that relations of super and sub-ordination are power relations which are in themselves wrong . |
| 30 | As previously argued , beautiful end-products are not in themselves sufficient justification for project work . |