Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The families themselves are presumed to be ordinary . |
| 2 | Interpretations were not offered by these priests — rather , the dreams themselves were thought to be curative . |
| 3 | In turn , the problems and difficulties themselves are thought to be irremediable ( Hargreaves 1975 , Leach 1977 ) , in the sense that they can not be resolved in the usual school or classroom context . |
| 4 | The exercises themselves are aimed to be helpful both in terms of clarity and relevance . |
| 5 | Furthermore the whole numbers themselves were shown to be definable entirely in terms of Cantor 's new notion of set ( Section 0.1 ) . |
| 6 | There not only does the fish fauna closely resemble that of the Middle Old Red Sandstone in Scotland , but the sediments themselves are said to be exactly like the Thurso Flagstone Group of Caithness . |