Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 2 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 3 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 6 | Neil Kinnock has won a standing ovation from the Labour Party faithful at their conference in Blackpool , by presenting himself as the next Prime Minister . |
| 7 | It took advantage of the country 's transferred preferential voting system by projecting itself as the second choice for the country 's growing number of Green voters . |