Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ever since the elections they have been revealing themselves as the neo-Nazis that they really are , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |
| 5 | On April 14 , the Spanish EFE news agency quoted a statement signed by four division generals , 19 colonels and one air force brigadier , describing themselves as the Guararapes group , who warned that the current situation was " identical " with that in Venezuela , subject of an attempted coup in February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and Peru , where President Fujimori seized power with army support on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 6 | So , in making their denials , they often make unseemly proclamations about their own heterosexuality , in the worst cases ( only too common ) dis-associating themselves from ‘ radical feminists ’ ( read lesbians ) and presenting themselves as the ones who are the reasonable moderates . |
| 7 | Many have a clear sense of class , recognizing themselves as the exploited , subjected to the petty extortion and corruption of the market administration , the police and other security forces . |
| 8 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 9 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |