Example sentences of "[adv] see [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archive has thus always seen itself in terms of historical rather than current social science research . |
| 2 | The tape was made collectively , and Siobhan still sees herself as part of an alternative to the mainstream . |
| 3 | The big three — the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) , the Policy Studies Institute and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research — still see themselves as purveyors of well-researched common sense . |
| 4 | Spurned by the Press , subject to unprovoked and vicious assaults by immigrants and policemen alike , denied gainful or meaningful employment by a heartless State , barred from the domestic hearth by severe , unyielding parents , the skinheads often see themselves as victims of almost Biblical proportions — as a stricken race of Jobs , as modern wanderers cast out into a cheerless world … |
| 5 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 6 | My sons will never see themselves as fathers of the tribe . |