Example sentences of "[verb] oneself as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting , as an aside , that though this may seem obvious , one has only to observe parents with children , or to catch oneself as a parent saying ‘ Do n't be so childish ! ’ to one 's three-year-old , to realize that the reminder remains necessary . |
| 2 | The idea of reading The Faerie Queene in an armchair and then announcing oneself as having gained virtue was a largely foreign concept to Spenser 's brand of humanism . |
| 3 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 4 | ‘ I would ask you to note further that , in this connection , describing oneself as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ is in itself an indication of one 's party allegiance , given that the political make-up of the council is widely known . ’ |
| 5 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |
| 6 | In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ . |
| 7 | For the health visitors , being professional meant having a particular orientation to the job and displaying oneself as a particular kind of person . |
| 8 | This may be achieved by engaging in what Matza ( 1969:93 ) refers to as ‘ natural reduction ’ , that is , reducing oneself — the subject — into a thing-like object incapable of transcending circumstances , which in this particular mundane instance means viewing oneself as incapable of disobeying orders from high places . |
| 9 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 10 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |
| 11 | To describe oneself as a fine chemicals supplier , therefore , requires self-confidence , not to say courage . |
| 12 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 13 | Union with God for the Christian does not mean recognising oneself as part of God ( ‘ self-realisation ’ ) but means becoming a member of God 's family by adoption . |
| 14 | Self-awareness even in an absolutely minimal form , is not merely to recognise oneself , but to be aware of recognising oneself as oneself , with much of what that implies . |
| 15 | How very unpleasant it can be , she reflected , to see oneself as others see one . |
| 16 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 17 | Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community . |
| 18 | These two forms of temporary working are by no means mutually exclusive , and to classify oneself as in the second group requires more detailed knowledge of contractual status . |
| 19 | It is rather the reverse ; it means an increased recognition of the importance of seeing oneself as part of the new Europe which is emerging . |
| 20 | Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus . |