Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 23% of teenagers described themselves as daily smokers . |
| 2 | For instance , nearly 30 per cent of the men in Townsend 's sample in ‘ managerial ’ occupations regarded themselves as working class , and at the other end of the scale 20 per cent of Butler and Stokes ' ‘ unskilled manual ’ workers regarded themselves as middle class . |
| 3 | The leading ‘ rank-and-file ’ activists of the 1960s and 1970s generally regarded themselves as anti-Stalinist leftists . |
| 4 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 5 | These European States , members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , regarded themselves as essential participants in the Western alliance and therefore as directly implicated in any perceived threat to it . |
| 6 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 7 | For instance , nearly 30 per cent of the men in Townsend 's sample in ‘ managerial ’ occupations regarded themselves as working class , and at the other end of the scale 20 per cent of Butler and Stokes ' ‘ unskilled manual ’ workers regarded themselves as middle class . |
| 8 | Some of these , for example the popular fronts in the republics , established themselves as significant features of the political scene . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Carter and Constantia Grierson established themselves as classical scholars . |
| 10 | Asked whether they saw themselves as feminist film-makers , for example , the four ( predictably ) came up with four different answers ranging from an unequivocal ‘ yes ’ to an almost indignant ‘ no ’ . |
| 11 | who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies . |
| 12 | When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ . |
| 13 | They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) . |
| 14 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 15 | Over the next few years , they re-established themselves as one of the most skilful and attack-minded teams in Scotland . |