Example sentences of "themselves [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories were heading for disaster if they continued to delude themselves that only a little fine tuning of presentation was required to secure a fourth consecutive general election victory . |
| 2 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |
| 3 | The majority of present-day carers are married , although many in this bracket are living alone and supporting themselves and possibly a family too . |
| 4 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 5 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |