Example sentences of "consider [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could then consider ourselves qualified in theoretic work , and a letter from our superiors in our chosen field would mean the fall Diploma . |
| 2 | Let us consider ourselves engaged ; I will marry no one else , I promise . |
| 3 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we should consider ourselves jolly lucky , ’ Peacock said . |
| 5 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 6 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 7 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 8 | Dr.Thomas Manton thought so highly of Baxter that he did not even consider himself worthy to carry his books behind him , and that ‘ Mr. Baxter came nearer the apostolic writings than any man in the age ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ When untouchability is rooted out , these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other . |
| 10 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 11 | That man should consider himself lucky that Marvin had n't actually been in the mood for a brawl . |
| 12 | No longer need he consider himself a charlatan , an impostor . |
| 13 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 14 | ‘ Craig is my first-born son and I love him dearly , ’ she paused , ‘ but , after what he 's done , Craig must consider himself disowned by the entire Grenfell family . ’ |
| 15 | He had led an exciting life in boxing circles before he went away to the war and he did not consider himself to lack nerve , but the plan the little shifty-eyed character was setting out made Billy want to get up and leave right away . |
| 16 | The falsificationist now appears to be reaching a tentative solution to his problem , although he does not consider himself to have proved by experiment how bats avoid collisions while flying . |
| 17 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 18 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 19 | Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way . |
| 20 | The really astonishing thing was that Walter Schellenberg did n't consider himself a Nazi , looked on the Third Reich as a sorry charade , its main protagonists actors of a very low order indeed . |
| 21 | No injuries ; they 're unchanged , which means Nicky Summerbee has won that number 8 shirt and can consider himself first choice . |
| 22 | Ill-defined THE BITER then can consider himself to have been bit , if not torn up and mutilated . |
| 23 | He does n't consider himself squeamish . |
| 24 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 25 | He might also have considered himself a very lucky man , as an actor of limited range who made his screen debut in the classic High Noon ( 1952 ) , playing the harmonica-playing member of the gang out to kill Gary Cooper . |
| 26 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 27 | Despite his obvious sex appeal — to both men and women — Banderas insists that he has never considered himself particularly attractive . |
| 28 | He had become accustomed to great wealth , but he had a social conscience and may even have considered himself a socialist . |
| 29 | Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ? |
| 30 | It is that of ‘ a thinking , intelligent being , that has reason and reflection , and can consider itself as itself , the same thinking thing in different times and places ’ . |