Example sentences of "[prep] itself as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 2 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 3 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 4 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 5 | Keeping her voice steady was a battle in itself as the touch of his hard , powerful body against her own was sending her breathing awry . |
| 6 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |