Example sentences of "themselves as [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 2 | Do people who buy privatization stock see themselves as establishing a stake in the economy ? |
| 3 | Thus , the planners tend to see themselves as pursuing a policy which is , in terms of Central Government legislation , good professional and local government practice . |
| 4 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 5 | These adopters often see themselves as helping the ‘ poor blacks ’ with the fantasy or rescue mission born out of collective guilt . |
| 6 | The clash of symbols represented by Dixon and Rambo represents a more fundamental conflict between those policemen and women who emphasize their role in terms of crime-fighting , especially ‘ big crime ’ , and those who see themselves as having a public service and community welfare role . |
| 7 | There are two sorts of contact with the public , and how those neighbourhood police who see themselves as having a service role attempt to engender friendly and informal relations depends upon the type of contact . |
| 8 | But this type of contact also demonstrates that the neighbourhood police see themselves as having a welfare function . |
| 9 | All these people now regard themselves as having a moral claim to land inside Israel — which is one reason , of course , why the PLO was for so long loath to consider a Palestinian nation outside the boundaries of the Jewish state . |
| 10 | In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state . |
| 11 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 12 | Do all your people see themselves as having a selling role ? |
| 13 | Headmasters , senators , judges , priests all see themselves as having a particular duty in this regard . |
| 14 | Young women artists today are beginning to see themselves as having a legacy , a past , a history . |
| 15 | It is a collection of individuals sharing some common purpose under a common leader , and seeing themselves as having a common identity . |
| 16 | The reason for this difference is that businesses see themselves as having a pool of resources which can be used in any aspect of their business to achieve their overall objective , e.g. to achieve a satisfactory return on capital . |
| 17 | You find people in places like New Zealand perhaps four generations away from Scotland who still see themselves as having a very important Scottish heritage . |
| 18 | I think the important thing to remember there is that erm we regard ourselves as having and people who work in universities regard themselves as having a special obligation and indeed to use their own special skills in order indeed to define the needs of society in their own special field and then to do what they can to satisfy . |
| 19 | It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge . |
| 20 | Babies are profoundly egocentric in that they are unable to view themselves as having an identity which is separate and distinct from the world which they are aware of through their senses . |
| 21 | In short , they see themselves as putting the teachers to an academic more than to a social test . |
| 22 | Most recent Prime Ministers have usually presented themselves as representing a collective Cabinet viewpoint . |
| 23 | Political parties mobilize bias within the populations of liberal democracies , identifying potential cleavages and presenting themselves as representing the interests of one group more than those of any other ( while recognizing that , for the state to retain its legitimacy , it is necessary to respect the interests of other groups , and thereby present a ‘ one nation ’ perspective in certain situations ) . |
| 24 | The north Belfast councillor said Sinn Fein portrayed themselves as defending the council 's leisure and community services but their IRA associates were actually taking money away those services . |
| 25 | Teachers view themselves as doing a good job by educating ‘ these immigrants ’ in the ‘ best education system in the world ’ … |
| 26 | Do they see their job as offering a service to children or do they see themselves as doing the children a favour by serving them ? |
| 27 | Despite the individual histories and contradictions of these relationships , women tend to represent themselves as doing the feeling and men the thinking . |
| 28 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 29 | In this triple partnership the universities could perceive themselves as occupying the middle ground between the LEAs as statutory providers and the voluntary bodies which traditionally existed to articulate and give shape to the aspirations and needs of individuals , groups and communities for liberal adult education . |
| 30 | As far as I could discover , there is no suggestion that the residents in the defined area for our research see themselves as constituting a socially relevant or meaningful whole . |