Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] themselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenants ( foreros ) paid a customary quit rent to the owner of the dominium eminens or forista ; as in most parts of the world where such tenures obtained , tenants came to look on themselves as outright owners . |
| 2 | Drug companies will have to start regarding themselves as suppliers of health rather than just medicines , and ‘ In the extreme case , companies could possibly start to provide general health counselling ’ to accompany the use of their products . |
| 3 | Theory was a vital factor in several women 's work , yet many found the terms ‘ feminist art ’ and ‘ feminist artist ’ problematic , preferring to refer to themselves as ‘ equalists ’ . |
| 4 | The next stage is when they begin to think of themselves as workers in Britain and compare their lives with those of other workers , black and white . |
| 5 | Top sportsmen liked to think of themselves as ‘ personalities ’ . |
| 6 | In this country much of that experience is differentiated along class lines : crudely , the very well-off use the predominantly single-sex public and boarding school system to accustom their children to an elite future , and the middle class ensure that their neighbourhood state school reinforces the values of their children 's socialisation at home and that , in a streamed system , their children are all in the higher streams ; meanwhile , working-class children are largely concentrated in the less well-resourced state schools , are often in the lower streams , and are frequently regarded by their teachers and even encouraged to think of themselves as ‘ no-hopers ’ . |
| 7 | Given time , they begin to think of themselves as our equals . |
| 8 | They must , for example , be able to think of themselves as ‘ the sort of person who does have incestuous sexual desires ’ , is prepared to avow them as ‘ part ’ of the self , and ceases to be so threatened by them . |
| 9 | Not , of course , that Germans have ceased to think of themselves as ‘ Germans ’ . |
| 10 | At this stage the six groups started to think of themselves as genuine groups for the project and began to regard each other as equal participants . |
| 11 | Individuals do not tend to think of themselves as champions , technology gatekeepers , or sponsors . |
| 12 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 13 | Of course it is right for people in the north-east to think of themselves as north-easterners . |
| 14 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 15 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 16 | Whereas , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , Ukrainian subjects of the Habsburg Empire were beginning to think of themselves as a distinct ethnic group , Ukrainian subjects of the tsar appeared not to do so . |
| 17 | Before 1861 the state had left most rural tasks to the gentry , but nobles who had been deprived of their serfs had no reason to think of themselves as agents of the government . |
| 18 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 19 | Englishmen and Scotsmen , as Anthony King observed , have tended not to think like Europeans nor to think of themselves as Europeans . |