Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the fungi that they themselves eat . |
| 2 | This increase comes from improved productivity , longer working hours , higher rates , or from a percentage of the earnings of labourers and craftsmen that they themselves employ . |
| 3 | The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries . |
| 4 | The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend does not , I think , dissent from that , but he has questioned local planning authorities ' deciding planning proposals that they themselves have originated and in particular the position of the county council in relation to the district council . |
| 6 | Parents deny their children the outdoor play that they themselves enjoyed . |
| 7 | if you actually went through the experience that they themselves were |
| 8 | For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves . |
| 9 | I can demonstrate the manner in which these two members of the court dealt with this submission by citing some passages from their judgment , without reference to the numerous authorities that they themselves cited , at pp. 358–360 : |
| 10 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 11 | Provided people assess their own utility by the quantity of goods that they themselves receive , B is a better allocation than A which in turn is a better allocation than C. But a comparison of A with points such as D , E or F , requires us to adopt a value judgement about the relative importance to us of David 's and Susie 's utility . |
| 12 | In my view , the value of research is that it can help teachers to define more clearly the problems that they themselves must solve . |
| 13 | This transmission of culture is aided by the tendency to recruit in ‘ one 's own image ’ where members of interview panels tend to look for similar qualities that they themselves possess when recruiting new members . |
| 14 | After passage of the 1974 Act , however , the authorities had to contemplate the prospect that they themselves might be prosecuted for the polluting effluents from their sewage works . |
| 15 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 16 | On the other hand , a number of studies ( Houghton , 1973 ; Evason , 1980 ; Pahl , 1985 ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) have found that some lone mothers , typically between a quarter and a third , say that they feel better-off as lone mothers than they did as married women because being alone means that they themselves have control over their ( albeit limited ) resources . |
| 17 | Their own anger with their mother for not being there is then attributed to her , and their fear results from believing she is in the rage that they themselves are in . |
| 18 | These discoveries have a bittersweet taste for the many mothers who have been told by their doctors that they themselves were at the root of such problems — because they were over-anxious , inexperienced , nervy , overindulgent or whatever . |
| 19 | 10.3 The Academic Parties shall , notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement , have a licence to use for the purpose of further internal research and teaching work all the foreground technical information that they themselves have generated together with such of the background and results as is communicated to them hereunder by the other Parties and is necessary for such use of their own result , but such use shall be in conformity with the confidentiality conditions of this Agreement . |
| 20 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 21 | This question resulted in almost one-third saying that they themselves might break the law . |
| 22 | Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice . |
| 23 | Third World rural economies were brought into the global system by making it more difficult for their populations to live outside the market , thus forcing them to produce crops that could be sold , as opposed to producing crops that they themselves consumed . |
| 24 | It is an unbelievable place to spend the summer and young people from all over Europe flock here from April right through to the end of October to enjoy the free and easy life-style and atmosphere that they themselves have created . |
| 25 | The later Victorians were experiencing , to an extent that they themselves may not have fully grasped , the psychological impact of a sharp deterioration in the dignity and decency formerly associated with the interment and commemoration of their dead . |
| 26 | They were , in the garden , the points of focus for her own attention ; and the fact that they themselves were concentrating intensified her satisfaction . |