Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor rejected Sawyer 's proposals , apparently convinced that he could win military victory and install himself as president . |
| 2 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 3 | These have far-reaching implications , especially for the strategies and styles adopted by advisory staff and heads , and for the ways class teachers view themselves as professionals . |
| 4 | Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate , their crimes political . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of the sample describe themselves as head of their households . |
| 6 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 7 | Do women who describe themselves as housewives really resent/disapprove of/despise mothers who go out to work ? |
| 8 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |
| 9 | They see the living room and its furnishings as a ‘ front ’ , one way in which individuals and families could both express themselves as individuals and yet still present themselves as part of a social group . |
| 10 | I analyse the various types of experiential modalities , and in particular the manner in which objects are targeted , and present themselves as objects to our evidential consciousness . |
| 11 | Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on . |
| 12 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 13 | Perhaps surprisingly then , other , less benevolent themes are also found associated with the solar cult , mainly in the form of the collective delusions of persecution which express themselves as belief in witchcraft . |
| 14 | Professionals tend to the conservative , and teachers who regard themselves as professionals tend to be more conservative than most . |
| 15 | Frequent leave was recommended ‘ in order to regain sanity of outlook after long periods of loneliness ’ , and it was later added that : ‘ Intellectual geniuses are not required , nor anyone with ‘ nerves ’ or who is likely to become ‘ Masai-astic ’ … i.e. regard themselves as specialists ' . |
| 16 | Well over two million of that diaspora regard themselves as victims of the 1948 war ; the half million or so who fled Palestine in 1948 have had children — in many cases grandchildren — who regard themselves as Palestinians . |
| 17 | Well over two million of that diaspora regard themselves as victims of the 1948 war ; the half million or so who fled Palestine in 1948 have had children — in many cases grandchildren — who regard themselves as Palestinians . |
| 18 | I mean , obviously we pride ourselves as officers on our man management . |
| 19 | It is really a question of where we feel happiest , and how much we see ourselves as part of nature rather than in conflict with it . |
| 20 | In the hope of forestalling this he was urged by the Japanese to retreat to his stronghold of Manchuria and establish himself as ruler of an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese tutelage . |
| 21 | ‘ If you look at house music , it 's always welcomed outside influences like jazz , I see myself as part of this tradition . ’ |
| 22 | Identify yourself as Jackie . |
| 23 | Major firms like General Motors and Heinz no longer see themselves as machines needing only periodic maintenance to run forever . |
| 24 | Surely the hears , minds and souls of people who love the hills are potent forces for good because they see themselves as guardians of these beautiful places ? |
| 25 | In Germany , workplace representatives in this industry see themselves as part of the administrative framework for the smooth conduct of industrial relations and work within given administrative and legal constraints . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Headteachers will soon discover that , among their Danish counterparts , ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 28 | Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 29 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 30 | It is clear from this comment that the question of occupational classification is closely linked to the self-concept : it involves the issue of whether , and to what extent , women see themselves as housewives . |