Example sentences of "of themselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 2 | That field is sport , where the East Germans think of themselves as a ‘ world power ’ , second only to the Soviet Union and the US . |
| 3 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the men of Northern Nigeria , conscious of themselves as the most refined products of a now self-consciously imperial civilization , were distinctly more inclined than their predecessors in the Punjab to ruminate on what they regarded , rather surprisingly in the circumstances , as the subtleties of their craft . |
| 6 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 7 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |
| 8 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 11 | Although most agency workers are taxed and pay social security contributions as if they were dependent employees , and most think of themselves as an employee of the agency for which they work , the relationship between them and these agencies has been deemed not to be one of employment . |
| 12 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 13 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 14 | Through the rigging of the schooner a five of Palernians could be seen , making a nuisance of themselves on a flimsy raft . |
| 15 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 16 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 17 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 18 | The allegedly second class Scots gave an undeniably first rate account of themselves in a first half in which the Germans set the mood for the evening with the quality of their possession play . |
| 19 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 20 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 21 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 22 | A number reveal more of themselves in the pages of Who 's Who . |
| 23 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 24 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 25 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 26 | He says it 's good fun to wander through , feed the ducks and watch people make fools of themselves in the punts . |