Example sentences of "consider themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 2 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 3 | Smaller raids which followed on the south-German cities of Munich , Augsburg , and Nuremberg , had a disproportionate psychological effect in demonstrating the extent of allied air supremacy in the capacity to reach so far south , and in illustrating that few could now consider themselves immune from the dangers of bombing . |
| 4 | If they are not , why do they consider themselves unable to do so ? |
| 5 | Some fat women do not define themselves sexually because they do not consider themselves sexually viable , and see no point in labelling themselves in a vacuum . |
| 6 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 7 | The people of God should never consider themselves as being the people of yesterday . |
| 8 | It does seem that some people would consider themselves natural and enthusiastic readers , while others need persuasion and encouragement to do anything other than ‘ dip ’ into a book . |
| 9 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 10 | The Gascons did not consider themselves French ; their language was barely intelligible to those who spoke the langue d'oil of the north , and their culture and society had more in common with Languedoc than with northern France . |
| 11 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 12 | Nor do they think women are interested in sensitivity ( which is just as well , since these men do n't consider themselves sensitive ) . |
| 13 | The ‘ working class ’ collectivity is , in a sense , centred on manual industrial labour , at least for the adult male members of working class families , although ( a ) by no means all people who consider themselves working class are employed in that sphere and ( b ) a not insignificant minority of people employed in that sphere do not consider themselves working class . |
| 14 | Women so engaged would therefore consider themselves rather more respectable . |
| 15 | The US basketball star 's announcement , Merson said , " drives home a basic truth about the AIDS pandemic " , that sexually active people could not consider themselves invulnerable , whatever their sexual preference . |
| 16 | And because they did not consider themselves sinners therefore in their own understanding they were not lost . |
| 17 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 18 | We hope that when the others are erected that they will consider themselves left out and perhaps join in . |
| 19 | Moreover , there were many bishops who would have considered themselves first and foremost monks : St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( d. 687 ) had a respectable ancestry reaching back to St Martin of Tours ( d. c .397 ) . |
| 20 | Over the years many men have come to my clinic because they have considered themselves failures in one vital respect . |
| 21 | SUDBURY were always the better team and would have considered themselves unlucky to have drawn , let alone lose . |
| 22 | Lack of confidence in the ‘ Portrait of Michael Wohlgemut ’ attributed to Durer resulted in failure at £380,000 ( est. £600,000–800,000 ) while Sotheby 's must have considered themselves unlucky not to find a buyer for the rare Garofalo ‘ Calumny of Apelles ’ ( lot 41 , est. £200,000–300,000 ) , an important but difficult canvas . |
| 23 | In practice the bulk of the work done by the Sûreté was not criminal investigation at all but political control … and its agents , not trained as professional detectives with clearly-prescribed answerability before a judicial authority , generally stood in low public esteem ; they were never concerned with safeguarding the personal safety and private property of Vietnamese villagers and seem to have considered themselves primarily as a network of agents to watch over the interests of the French state . |
| 24 | Without doubt , the construction of such a hegemonic bloc for socialist objectives must involve winning the support of many people who regard themselves as ‘ middle class ’ or of no class , many who have never considered themselves socialists , many who are not members of trade unions , by colonising and re-defining the notion of the popular or national interest ( while avoiding chauvinism and the opportunistic erasure of real social differences ) . |
| 25 | There are Turks and Israelis who passionately consider themselves Europeans but there are Muslims and Jews for whom Europe is simply a hostile place where they live . |
| 26 | As company-car drivers tend to travel farther and more often on motorways , they consider themselves more experienced and skilful than private motorists , according to a recent survey by Gallup for General Accident , an insurance company . |
| 27 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 28 | Usually from magazines that consider themselves rivals . |
| 29 | In contrast , the new novelists consider themselves first and foremost to be creative artists whose main obligation is to produce a well-crafted work of art that stands up in its own right as an autonomous reality . |
| 30 | Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close . |