Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [verb] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the formal accomplishments of law , accountancy and financial management , these skills restrict themselves to formalized consumer analysis , market survey technique , matrixes and learning curves . |
| 2 | You only have to read what women in emerging feminist groups and movements are writing , to see that these patterns repeat themselves time and again . |
| 3 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 4 | Moreover , these groups found themselves to be in a catch 22 — no win — situation so far as their own political action was concerned . |
| 5 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 6 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 7 | By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run ; some sections , and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall . |
| 8 | In 1980 these countries committed themselves to the concept of health for all by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 10 | The missa parodia was , of course , nothing new but these composers devoted themselves to it almost exclusively and developed new techniques . |
| 11 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 12 | A report by Robert Blatchford of a visit to a Music Hall in the ‘ Gay Nineties ’ offered a vivid portrait of how these feelings expressed themselves in everyday life . |
| 13 | In those days many Europeans , especially in Kenya , relied on Somalis as their headmen ; in turn , these Somalis identified themselves with their masters and gave them devoted service . |
| 14 | Some members of these families have themselves experienced school failure and rejection as children . |
| 15 | Under , inner — how do these conditions express themselves ? |
| 16 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 17 | The intrusive authorial voice exemplified in this passage , and generally typical of the classic novel — the voice that confides , comments , explains and sometimes scolds — the voice to which we rather casually give the name that appears on the title-page ( Henry Fielding , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , or whoever ) is the most obvious sign that these writers saw themselves as engaged in an act of communication with their readers . |
| 18 | The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan . |
| 19 | All the people in these villages called themselves Patels but they were divided into clans which corresponded quite closely with the Hindu caste system . |
| 20 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |
| 21 | These divisions establish themselves in the first five years or so of our lives . |
| 22 | In response to the electric field in which these charges find themselves , the positive and negative charges will slightly separate . |
| 23 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 24 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 25 | These men reconcile themselves to circumstance , make their own compromises with destiny until happier times . |
| 26 | The power of these systems to manage themselves and simplify the interface with users comes from the large amount of computer power which they use . |
| 27 | By replicating the relevant conditions scientists are able to see these laws manifest themselves again and again . |
| 28 | These women did themselves well , at least their husbands did them well . |
| 29 | Often these prophets saw themselves as reformers , who had a vocation to transform the religious vision of their time . |
| 30 | Some carvers prefer the thicker bevels for mallet work , but as these tools lend themselves more to paring and slicing , the finer edges appear imperative . |