Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | In 98.6 , Sukenick briefly casts himself as an improvising comic on the explicit model of Lenny Bruce and Milton Berle . |
| 4 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 5 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 6 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 7 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 8 | If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat , what advantage does it gain ? |
| 9 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 10 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 11 | Eliot sees himself as an orthodox writer , trying to make his audience aware of the need to contribute to their own living tradition . |
| 12 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 13 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 14 | The basic complexity is one of asymmetry , which in these conditions shows itself as a deepseated contradiction between the reproduction of market relations ( both directly , within the market , and indirectly , within state and educational functions ) and the consequences of such reproduction in certain sensitive and perhaps crucial areas of public morality , respect for authority and actual crime . |
| 15 | The Library sees itself as a major provider of an enquiry service within RBGE , and also as a switching centre for specialist enquiries which we forward to the most appropriate staff for answer . |
| 16 | Although GEC has no plans to move into the growing marker for digital applications of GaAs chips the company sees itself as a major player in GaAs wafers for ‘ simple ’ analogue devices . |
| 17 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 18 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 19 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 20 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 21 | Heterosexuality , once it is exposed as an exchange of women between men , reveals itself as a mediated form of homosexuality . |
| 22 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 23 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 24 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 25 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 26 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 27 | This fantasy is shattered when Magwitch suddenly re-enters his life and announces himself as the mysterious benefactor . |
| 28 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Devlin portrays himself as a dynamic character , bursting with enthusiasm and energy and commitment to the constituency . |