Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 2 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 3 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 4 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 5 | Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] . |
| 6 | Since temptations to inattentiveness , prejudice , wishful thinking , are as strong as moral temptations , there are times when ‘ Face facts ’ imposes itself as the most rigorous , the most unwelcome of imperatives . |
| 7 | Offers itself as the ideal means of acquiring a basic grounding in art , architecture , painting , sculpture , literature , drama and music . |
| 8 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 9 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 10 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 11 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 12 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 13 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 14 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 15 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 16 | Arkwright Myers , a fifty-year-old fitness freak , introduces himself as the owner . |
| 17 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 18 | The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming . |
| 19 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 20 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 21 | In career terms , Sir Patrick regards himself as the ‘ freak ’ of the Wright family . |
| 22 | It regards itself as the guardian of the water environment and has successfully prosecuted thirty polluters so far , with many cases still pending . |
| 23 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 24 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 25 | This fantasy is shattered when Magwitch suddenly re-enters his life and announces himself as the mysterious benefactor . |
| 26 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |
| 27 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |
| 28 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 29 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 30 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |