Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] themselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time , however , learners and trained staff welcome the opportunity to see themselves as others see them , and endeavour to improve their skills . |
| 2 | Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will . |
| 3 | However , diaries kept by parents can produce valuable information and also help parents to see themselves as active partners in the assessment process . |
| 4 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 5 | RIEs do not even have an exclusive right to describe themselves as an " exchange " . |
| 6 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 7 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 8 | They advertise for people to present themselves as possible magistrates . |
| 9 | These examples indicate some of the features of girl friendly science : it builds on girls ' interests , not just boys ' ; it explicitly encourages girls to see themselves as potential scientists , and it includes some of the social and human implications and applications of science . |
| 10 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |
| 11 | This model of internal marketing can be applied to schools through encouraging teachers to see themselves as customers . |
| 12 | Despite criticism of these research findings , I remain convinced that they offer a framework for schools to investigate themselves as organisations and for teachers to analyse themselves as individuals when meeting disruptive behaviour . |
| 13 | By contrast , if energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds can move through their own efforts into leadership positions in the key economic , political and administrative organizations , then they have little incentive to try to organize a collective effort with other non-elite groups to develop themselves as a counter-elite . |
| 14 | Problems that arise include the unwillingness of clinicians to see themselves as resource managers . |
| 15 | In Phil Alden Robinson 's adaptation of W.P.Kinsella 's book , Kevin Costner , Hollywood 's latest superstar , plays a New York boy with a hang-up about his father who has taken his wife ( Amy Madigan ) and daughter off to an Iowan farm to find themselves as a family . |
| 16 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |