Example sentences of "itself as the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 2 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 3 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 4 | But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement . |
| 5 | At its 19th congress on Oct. 23-27 the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions ( AUCCTU ) reconstituted itself as the General Confederation of USSR Trade Unions . |
| 6 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 7 | BODO 'S EPIC misinterpretation of my failure at Lani 's established itself as the authorized version of events . |
| 8 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 9 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 10 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 11 | After the defection of members like John Strachey and Harold Nicolson , Mosley 's movement relaunched itself as the British Union of Fascists on I October 1932 . |
| 12 | Marxism invented itself as the proper understanding of the nature of history seen from the perspective of labour , and should therefore have become the perspective and consciousness of labour . |