Example sentences of "oneself as " in BNC.

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1 Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts .
2 ‘ I would ask you to note further that , in this connection , describing oneself as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ is in itself an indication of one 's party allegiance , given that the political make-up of the council is widely known . ’
3 Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community .
4 To describe oneself as a fine chemicals supplier , therefore , requires self-confidence , not to say courage .
5 The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so .
6 His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself .
7 Indeed , it is precisely from this ‘ being aware of having experience ’ and being able both to communicate its features to another and to distinguish between oneself as experiencing agent and another 's reported experiences that the prime features of humanity arise .
8 Whereas we may postulate ‘ awareness ’ as a basic property of any behaviour , the ongoing ‘ here-and-now , relating together of incoming sensations to provide a consciousness of ‘ oneself as an object ’ requires a sustained act of attention utilizing a coded representation of reality in which the self as agent is included .
9 It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric .
10 In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory .
11 Union with God for the Christian does not mean recognising oneself as part of God ( ‘ self-realisation ’ ) but means becoming a member of God 's family by adoption .
12 It is worth noting , as an aside , that though this may seem obvious , one has only to observe parents with children , or to catch oneself as a parent saying ‘ Do n't be so childish ! ’ to one 's three-year-old , to realize that the reminder remains necessary .
13 Consequently secular logic views selfishness within oneself as a force to be harnessed and in others as a weakness to be exploited .
14 This may be achieved by engaging in what Matza ( 1969:93 ) refers to as ‘ natural reduction ’ , that is , reducing oneself — the subject — into a thing-like object incapable of transcending circumstances , which in this particular mundane instance means viewing oneself as incapable of disobeying orders from high places .
15 One 's sense of oneself as a worthwhile person is in jeopardy .
16 Self-awareness even in an absolutely minimal form , is not merely to recognise oneself , but to be aware of recognising oneself as oneself , with much of what that implies .
17 This is involved in becoming aware of oneself as a self-conscious moral agent .
18 For the health visitors , being professional meant having a particular orientation to the job and displaying oneself as a particular kind of person .
19 Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus .
20 Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman 's behaviour in a variety of ways .
21 One 's sense of oneself as a person is closely bound up with one 's name .
22 Taking it as far as it can be taken , Hegel suggests that the conflict between myself and the person in whom my identity resides will become a struggle between life and death , because , he says , it is only by risking one 's life that one becomes fully aware of oneself as a free , autonomous individual .
23 One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth .
24 And to test whether this is in fact true of how scientists think , the only way to work is to observe , not oneself as a student doing discovery learning , but scientists themselves .
25 These two forms of temporary working are by no means mutually exclusive , and to classify oneself as in the second group requires more detailed knowledge of contractual status .
26 How very unpleasant it can be , she reflected , to see oneself as others see one .
27 Sarah understood instinctively the romantic feel of the product , coupled with Laura 's personal philosophy of being true to oneself as a woman and letting everything revolve around the home .
28 In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ .
29 Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . "
30 It is rather the reverse ; it means an increased recognition of the importance of seeing oneself as part of the new Europe which is emerging .
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