Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] themselves [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course a child 's comments need not always be explored but are of themselves tremendously important in giving an indication of his stage of thinking . |
| 2 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 3 | Additionally , the bibliographic records owned by both Libraries are in themselves commercially valuable . |
| 4 | The chemicals in perms are in themselves very safe and effective , but damage can easily result from poor technique on the part of the hairdresser . |
| 5 | I see no immediate need for the regulation of such systems which are in themselves merely a means of gathering evidence . |
| 6 | Tea and marijuana are in themselves fairly harmless , yet tea is generally legal and marijuana not . |
| 7 | Another element of Pareto 's attack on classical democratic theory is in his contention that the governing elites , whether characterised by the residue of combinations or by the residue of persistence of aggregates , are motivated not by morality or reason but by these common basic sentiments which are in themselves morally unspecific and illogical . |
| 8 | The two books I have chosen to look at are in themselves extremely different . |
| 9 | Such explanations of allegiance to the state and to charismatic patriarchal figures are in themselves too vague in this generalised form . |