Example sentences of "themselves blame " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many victims , perhaps still recovering from their injuries , face silent menace from defendants and their supporters or find themselves blamed for their plight , even in the hospital emergency department . |
| 2 | The Conservatives , first under Margaret Thatcher and now under John Major , will have only themselves to blame . |
| 3 | The magic wears off , and Swift advises women that they have only themselves to blame for a husband 's loss of enthusiasm if they do not keep themselves clean : |
| 4 | Anyone who did not read Miss Post 's book before their first voyage had only themselves to blame for sartorial gaffes . |
| 5 | SINGLES sales are at their lowest ebb for 20 years , according to latest industry figures , but with the material record companies are turning out , they 've only got themselves to blame . |
| 6 | In one sense Christians have only themselves to blame . |
| 7 | If they were drunk and disorderly and so on , they only had themselves to blame . |
| 8 | ’ If they were drunk and disorderly and so on , they only had themselves to blame . |
| 9 | If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors . |
| 10 | All in all , this is a valuable stage which researchers who do not accept criticism very easily will probably wish to avoid , but if they do consciously and deliberately avoid it , they have only themselves to blame for not taking advantage of a most useful and quite inexpensive step in schedule preparation . |
| 11 | IF charities are concerned because sales of their Christmas cards are down on previous years , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 12 | It is clear to me that as this only affects a small proportion of the membership and there are good strategic reasons for the larger firms to back the proposal ( eg the demise of the smaller practice ) , unless general practitioners take action now they will only have themselves to blame when their incomes fall and the value of their practices diminishes . |
| 13 | Never mind reverting to the back-foot no-ball law : bowlers , greedy for every millimetre , have plenty of ground upon which to plant the front foot , and have only themselves to blame for being no-balled . |
| 14 | In a way the Alsatians have only themselves to blame , or to congratulate , if their wines are considered reliable and excellent value for money ( hardly terms one could use about Burgundy , for instance ) . |
| 15 | If companies do n't ensure that they understand and are understood , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 16 | Marconi thus had a special importance because it provided an issue of corruption that could not be turned back by Liberals against the Unionists , and for this the Liberals had only themselves to blame . |
| 17 | In one sense , the Champenois have only themselves to blame . |
| 18 | The team have only themselves to blame . |
| 19 | Mind you , I felt a bit mean at being amused , but after all they had only themselves to blame . |
| 20 | Those who do n't ‘ have only themselves to blame ’ . |
| 21 | Recently , Lanham has argued for the retention of the exemption on the ground , inter alia , that many wives who are raped by their husbands have only themselves to blame . |
| 22 | This entire magazine is aimed at unlocking the mind-set that says : overpopulation is the Third World 's worst problem , that therefore the poor have only themselves to blame for their poverty , and that therefore the solution should always begin with a family planning programme . |
| 23 | If someone deliberately flouts the law in that manner , they only have themselves to blame for the consequences . |
| 24 | Ards have only themselves to blame ; Bustard 's 28th minute volley , which finished off Connell 's deep cross put them in command but the same player failed with two later chances and Connell 's rasping drive missed the target as well . |
| 25 | Those who fall for drunkards and drug addicts have only themselves to blame if it goes wrong which it nearly always does . |
| 26 | Would my right honourable friend not agree that because of their irresponsible behaviour in disrupting G C H Q's vital work in the early nineteen eighties the trade unions only have themselves to blame for this ban . |
| 27 | If Anglican vicars have left bat droppings to accumulate for so long that their ceilings are sagging , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 28 | SOUTHPORT were beaten 3-2 by Wrexham in an FA Cup replay at the Racecourse on November 7 , but only had themselves to blame . |
| 29 | Mind you , Swindon only had themselves to blame for not getting more goals . |