Example sentences of "sees itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 2 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 3 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 4 | The Economic Policy Institute , born in 1986 , is a bit further left : like the Heritage Foundation , but the other way round , it sees itself as a rebel fighting conventional wisdom . |
| 5 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 6 | Although GEC has no plans to move into the growing marker for digital applications of GaAs chips the company sees itself as a major player in GaAs wafers for ‘ simple ’ analogue devices . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range . |
| 8 | Sybase claims to have launched the client/server market itself with the release of its Open SQL Server and Client products in 1987 : now it sees itself launching a further market , enterprise client/server , mainly for mainframe customers downsizing to new platforms , as opposed to the departmental ( and usually Unix or VAX/VMS ) first generation of SQL-based database system . |
| 9 | Sybase claims to have launched the client-server market itself with the release of its Open SQL Server and Client products in 1987 : now it sees itself launching a further market , enterprise client-server , mainly for mainframe customers downsizing to new systems , as opposed to the departmental ( and usually Unix or VAX/VMS ) first generation of SQL-based database system . |
| 10 | The Clinton administration , more than any other in memory , sees itself as a ménage of bright young minds out to shake up America . |
| 11 | The city sees itself as Japan 's natural centre of commerce . |
| 12 | The DPP , which wants an independent Taiwan and unlike the KMT harbours no dreams about the mainland , sees itself as representing the majority of the Taiwanese , who were on the island long before the mainland influx of the late 1940s . |
| 13 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 14 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 15 | But the centre sees itself not only as a source for facilitating placements . |
| 16 | PMC sees itself as not only a creative service agency , but as a think-tank for progressive ideas and radical action . |
| 17 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 18 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 19 | Worknet sees itself as an employment and training facilitator and provider , an organisation which with the support of the community within which it operates , works on the skills of the individual within the community . |
| 20 | The Commission sees itself as motivating authorities to make improvements by helping them to help themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale ’ , we might speculate , marks a trend within the counterculture which sees itself as , so to speak , ‘ sensuously spiritual ’ ( Bach mediated by soul singing ) and is ‘ immanently oppositional ’ vis-á-vis bourgeois culture ( rock made baroque ) . |
| 22 | The problem arises from the fact that the Civil Service sees itself as being above the party battle , with a political position of its own to defend ’ ( Benn , 1980 , p. 9 ) . |
| 23 | The new majority sees itself as dispossessed . |
| 24 | For too long , we have been hidebound by fears borne of self-selected memories and infused by a false jingoism — a vision of Europe in which Britain sees itself surrounded solely by enemies and not friends . |
| 25 | The Library sees itself as a major provider of an enquiry service within RBGE , and also as a switching centre for specialist enquiries which we forward to the most appropriate staff for answer . |
| 26 | But if a school sees itself as a community school , giving out as much as — or more than — it takes in in the shape of benefit to individual pupils , the manager must decide with some or all the partners on which aspects of community education to concentrate . |
| 27 | The people of England sees itself as free but is grossly mistaken , it is free only during the election of members of parliament . |
| 28 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |