Example sentences of "[noun] themselves [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 2 | The Scots themselves provided sufficient evidence that the English mission was to be welcomed . |
| 3 | What this election was about was partly the speed of economic reform — as in so many other eastern European countries — but mainly the candidates themselves and whether the republic should build links with Russia or the West . |
| 4 | And strategies designed to bring out these problems do not cause distress themselves but merely bring out distress which is already present within the individual . |
| 5 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
| 6 | He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps . |
| 7 | Equally , we would seldom be likely to use the word acrobatic of acrobats themselves or their doings except , precisely , on occasions when they are exercising their special skills — the rest of the time we may speak of them , if a description is needed at all , as large , or rich , or charming , as standing on his dignity , or asking for black coffee , or younger than Aunt Mary , and so on . |
| 8 | Governments were under constant pressure to provide such facilities and , in addition to politicising consumption , they constantly risked running into fiscal crises themselves or charging even higher taxes on the capitalist enterprises they were supposed to be supporting . |
| 9 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 10 | But Alu sequences are not transcribed by polymerase II : instead they are copied by the enzyme ( polymerase III ) that produces the specialised RNAs — ( ribosomal and transfer RNAs ) that are never translated into proteins themselves but participate in the translation of other RNAs . |
| 11 | Likewise the increased accountability of heads to governors , created by the 1986 Education Act and expanded again in the Reform Act , means not only extra work but extra tensions both for the heads themselves and for their staffs . |
| 12 | It will highlight instances which are both whole words themselves and parts of other words , and in both upper and lower case letters . |
| 13 | The present chapter turns to the protagonists themselves as they appeared to the outside observer in 1980 , when continuous fighting began . |
| 14 | The elders of these families — often in a pitiable condition themselves since , being old , they suffer most from being refugees — are thrown into utter confusion at their powerlessness . |
| 15 | The responsibility for obtaining such information rests with the business units themselves and/or a central research and development department . |
| 16 | The distinction is important because the executory contract creates only personal rights between the parties themselves whereas the executed contract gives the buyer an interest in the goods . |
| 17 | Some proposals are generated by parties themselves and implemented when the opportunity arises . |
| 18 | On the one hand there are the waves themselves and the various factors which control their size , shape and approach to the coast . |
| 19 | The reason why Lieberson is doubtful about the control variable approach is the selectivity processes are probably operating within the control variables themselves and involve factors which affect the dependent variable but in unmeasured ways . |
| 20 | Journalists themselves as well as the party seemed almost oblivious of the harm being wrought . |
| 21 | Under the present compensation er proposals put forward by Good , it would all be provided by the pension funds themselves and there 's no pain for the fund managers er no requirement really for them to blow the whistle . |
| 22 | They can choose whether to enter data themselves or to use the data preparation service in the computer centre ; to enter data using real-time screen-based record editors or to use a monolithic batch mode multifile update system . |
| 23 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 24 | As both schools had a similar catchment area , he postulated that it was the schools themselves that made the difference between their pupils ' behaviour . |
| 25 | Lump sum investments can take advantage of the charitable status of public schools by paying into an educational trust run by the schools themselves or the life offices . |
| 26 | The schools were blamed for this and new courses — such as TVEI ( Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative ) and CPVE ( Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ) — were introduced into schools themselves as well as into the gap between school and work . |
| 27 | We are also developing a common funding formula for self- governing schools which is fair , both to the schools themselves and to the local education authorities which is transparent and which offers a reasonable prospect of stability of funding . |
| 28 | My Lords , as only one thousand of the twenty four thousand schools er have opted out during five years of this does not that suggest that the schools themselves and the governors and the parents to whom the Minister refers , are not convinced of the advantages and in those circumstances was she given absolute guarantee that no opt- out will be allowed without a ballot ? |
| 29 | This is a project which is to help children at school understand something of industry and of the industrial world in which they 're going to work , and also conversely to bring industrialists into involvement with schools themselves and with developing the curriculum . |
| 30 | The schools will have goals themselves as institutions and goals for their students as individuals . |