Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And the brutal honesty of his observations is sometimes lost in the attempt to make the words themselves beautiful .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house .
7 In the stations themselves greater attention was now given to the problems of circulation , the control , movement , and organization of great numbers of people .
8 The Marre Committee concluded that unless the professions themselves initiated change , it would be forced upon them .
9 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 .
10 Letting Service — aimed at Landlords who wish to manage the properties themselves Equivalent to 4 weeks ' rent
11 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 .
12 Instead of trying to eliminate neural centres the aim is to sever the pathways that connect them , leaving the centres themselves intact ( Geschwind 1965 ) .
13 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 .
14 Contemporaries , even the men themselves involved in heated arguments over matters of ceremonial , were often well aware that most of these questions were trivial .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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