Example sentences of "[noun pl] themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arquebus did just that — exactly prior to the moment when , quite unexpectedly to Yeremi , perhaps even to those parabolically crisscrossing skaters themselves , they configured close to one another like planets swooping into conjunction . |
| 2 | And we intend to give council tenants new opportunities themselves to improve the flat or house in which they live . |
| 3 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 4 | In response to the government 's condemnation of images in July 1547 and February 1548 , commissioners roamed the country , either chivying churchwardens into taking action , or on occasions , as at Hull , smashing the images themselves . |
| 5 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 6 | … . I submit that the images themselves are not directly God-given but arise from man 's analogical imagination . ’ |
| 7 | If the images themselves are changing in time , as in the case of animations or motion video , the problem is compounded . |
| 8 | We can do the work by using photographs or drawings initially , but it 's often more exciting for the children to make the images themselves , perhaps later drawing what they have done in comic strip form , making their own comic based on the story that 's been created in the drama . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Responsibility for interpreting Marxist thought was also removed from intellectuals and centralized in the leadership of each national communist party , or even in the Comintern offices themselves . |
| 11 | The survivors themselves later said that Arafat only wanted more martyrs to capture the attention of the world . |
| 12 | In short , other lives — apart from the rape survivors themselves — may be damaged in the quest for sensational exposures . |
| 13 | The match referee , a technician at his side if necessary , could be the magic eye , unless it is to be someone from the ranks of the umpires themselves . |
| 14 | Heads and governors were not required to manage these two main influences although headteachers themselves were often directly involved in the committees and working parties which steered the programmes of teachers ' centres . |
| 15 | Sabbatical leave , further training for teacher trainers themselves , and the buying in of linguistic expertise could only go part way in breaking the vicious circle . |
| 16 | I hope that employers , government and trainers themselves will treat it as a serious attempt by the trade unions to contribute to the debate on training for the industry . |
| 17 | First , it ignores the infrastructure necessary to support the trainer ( let alone the training of trainers themselves ) which doubles or triples the resources required . |
| 18 | That force , unlike those vortices , was a well-evidenced explanation for the planets ' orbits because , the argument went , the orbits themselves were not the sole evidence for its existence . |
| 19 | The Horbys themselves say they have to make the most of what they have with Leah . |
| 20 | But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves . |
| 21 | European colonizers have left their marks all over the central Pacific — in the name of protecting sea-lanes , submarine cable routes , or the native peoples themselves . |
| 22 | Here in Indonesia , at the most fragile geographical division between the earth 's outer , congealed crust and its inner , molten magma , we also found amongst the peoples themselves the thinnest division between our more recently evolved left-brain , rational faculties , and the millennia-old storehouse of right-brain intuitive wisdom . |
| 23 | Some are managed by the districts themselves , others are self-governing trusts . |
| 24 | In the foreground of the Bank Holiday outrages were the ‘ Hooligan ’ gangs themselves . |
| 25 | In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed . |
| 26 | The recordings themselves , even considering their vintage , have hardly stood up well to the passage of time and the transfers to CD have cruelly highlighted some appallingly blatant edits in the originals . |
| 27 | Elder assured Henry that , with Highland support , he could achieve what the Scots themselves wanted : freedom from France , the establishment of the Protestant faith , and union with England . |
| 28 | The Scots themselves provided sufficient evidence that the English mission was to be welcomed . |
| 29 | The Scots themselves remained divided , on religious as well as political grounds . |
| 30 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |