Example sentences of "[prep] themselves [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it it seems to me also , and I may be totally wrong here , but it seems people who are least likely to look after themselves are the ones who want to have animals ? |
| 2 | A system which favours people who are good at looking after themselves is not a just one . |
| 3 | The ‘ need ’ for large numbers of very old people to be cared for , because they are unable fully to look after themselves is a phenomenon of the later part of the twentieth century , when the age structure of the population has shifted to give high proportions of older people , at the same time as advances in medical care have enabled many more people to survive into very old age , despite infirmities . |
| 4 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 5 | It will also begin to consider the extent to which humanities students ' sense of themselves is affected , adversely or otherwise , by the experience of studying their subjects . |
| 6 | Like father , like daughter in a family linked by art MAKING an exhibition of themselves is an art as far as Mr Roy Hildon and his daughter , Jane , are concerned . |
| 7 | In many cases they get very depressed or they even die , because their image of themselves is very much bound up with work and . |
| 8 | Yet so sure of themselves were they , that for 17.5 hours after the blast the power-station management insisted that the reactor remained intact and that it was only an emergency watertank that had exploded . |
| 9 | It would also deal with the danger posed by ardent nationalists or super-patriots who might willingly run the risk of themselves being prosecuted for war crimes if they thought their state would gain some permanent benefit from their actions . |
| 10 | The therapeutic objective of holding the mirror up to nature and confronting people with themselves is further explored in the final section of the book , which looks at the wider implications of drama in secure settings and its role in therapy . |
| 11 | Moreover , what they take back inside themselves is an experience of the relationship in which the monster was tamed . |
| 12 | Those thoughts in themselves are sufficient to turn the occasion from a loving one into some sort of physical test — and of course the same thing happens again ; the man feels so tense and anxious that he is simply not able to perform sexually . |
| 13 | Thus human beings come prepackaged with a set of potential capacities and constraints , but these in themselves are not fixed or determined . |
| 14 | The activities which seem most obviously to have their point in themselves are what we regard as typically leisure activities — art , playing games , joking . |
| 15 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 16 | These activities in themselves are no different from the kind of activities often found in books of exercises , but here the context is crucially different . |
| 17 | He overcomes these problems not by imposing rigid bureaucratic controls which in themselves are expensive , but by developing his own sensitive antennae to detect people who step out of line . |
| 18 | However , success stories in themselves are not unusual and most certainly part of any teaching environment . |
| 19 | Thus , whereas budgets in themselves are primarily tools of planning , the process of budgetary control is both a planning device and a control device . |
| 20 | Variables in themselves are divided between those determined inside the model ( endogenous ) and those given outside the model ( exogenous ) . |
| 21 | However striking the changes produced by the spread of industry itself and by urbanisation , these in themselves are not the measure of the impact of capitalism . |
| 22 | ‘ Bodies in themselves are usually worth nothing , ’ said El-Gharbi . |
| 23 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 24 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |
| 25 | I think the warming up exercises in themselves are a good thing though |
| 26 | fancy calling somebody that , I mean the names in themselves are old fashion names are n't they |
| 27 | Goal displacement in the form of means becoming ends in themselves is often said to be a characteristic dysfunction of bureaucratic forms of organization . |
| 28 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 29 | Yet the clarity and rigour may in themselves be problematical . |
| 30 | So far as property rights were concerned the Vice-Chancellor held that words being transmitted by electrical impulses could not in themselves be the subject-matter of property rights . |