Example sentences of "[verb] themselves as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest , some sick of national stereotyping , listed themselves as Yugoslavs , Turks , Jews , Gypsies , Eskimos , Giraffes or Lampshades . |
| 2 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 3 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 4 | Only nine per cent of Moxon-Browne 's survey described themselves as evangelicals , but 74.5 per cent gave ‘ fear of the power of the Roman Catholic Church ’ as their reason for being unionist . |
| 5 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 8 | By using a Greek derivation , foot lovers could always describe themselves as podophiles . |
| 9 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
| 10 | In Europe they would probably describe themselves as transsexuals and have a full sex change . |
| 11 | In a few generations , there was a new class of Britons who regarded themselves as part of the Roman empire and ‘ Roman ’ in a broad sense . |
| 12 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 13 | All Russian attempts to penetrate the Teleuts ' territories were opposed , since they regarded themselves as overlords in the northern Altai . |
| 14 | It is indeed the case that both of these " new branches " professed an orthodox Arminian theology and regarded themselves as movements within rather than against the Church of England . |
| 15 | There was a time when most Scots regarded themselves as members of one or other of the main Christian denominations . |
| 16 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 17 | According to one study , published in 1971 , only 5 per cent of career foreign service officers in the State Department regarded themselves as Republicans . |
| 18 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 19 | These wild Gaelic-speaking men may have once lived in bothies , but when in Brighton they regarded themselves as raiders in a strange and hostile land . |
| 20 | Also , I was always under the impression that the likes of Constable , whilst in full knowledge that they were at the top of their profession , regarded themselves as craftsmen . |
| 21 | I hasten to qualify this observation in that the cutter crews in no way regarded themselves as amateurs . |
| 22 | In any event the ‘ Far East ’ solution depended , with rather specious simplicity , on the ability to separate communist sheep from nationalist goats and even though the distinction was recognized as the sine qua non of a solution , it assumed that those who would not support genuine independence , once it was granted by the French , would identify themselves as communists : and would thereby distinguish themselves from the rest of the ‘ nationalist elements ’ who comprised the major part of the resistance forces . |
| 23 | Even more provocative is a poll that found that the vast majority of American women today do n't even identify themselves as feminists . |
| 24 | Friends literally reason together in order to organise experience and to define themselves as persons . |
| 25 | Supporters could perceive themselves as part of ‘ a collective and democratically-structured enterprise ’ . |
| 26 | These have far-reaching implications , especially for the strategies and styles adopted by advisory staff and heads , and for the ways class teachers view themselves as professionals . |
| 27 | Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate , their crimes political . |
| 28 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 29 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 30 | Two-thirds of the sample describe themselves as head of their households . |