Example sentences of "see themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 2 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 3 | The word ‘ theory ’ has always aroused suspicion amongst the English , who see themselves as practical people and sound empiricists . |
| 4 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 5 | They see themselves not as author and illustrator , with separate roles , but as a partnership of ‘ book-makers ’ , contributing equally to the process . |
| 6 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 7 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 8 | Of course , as we shall see , not all policemen see themselves as Rambo in police uniform , and the emotional effects of routine policing cam be as traumatic for some men . |
| 9 | This is work which the majority of section police see themselves as unsuited for and dislike when they have to do it . |
| 10 | The image of policing gleaned from police programmes on British and American television and in films is very much how Easton 's police see themselves , as others have commented with respect to police forces elsewhere ( Holdaway 1983 : 147 ; Hurd 1979 ; Klockars 1983 ; Morris and Heal 1981 ; Tuska 1979 ) . |
| 11 | The reverse is equally evident , for informal controls sometimes operate to moderate the actions of those members of the RUC who see themselves as Rambo in police uniform . |
| 12 | The clash of symbols represented by Dixon and Rambo represents a more fundamental conflict between those policemen and women who emphasize their role in terms of crime-fighting , especially ‘ big crime ’ , and those who see themselves as having a public service and community welfare role . |
| 13 | There are two sorts of contact with the public , and how those neighbourhood police who see themselves as having a service role attempt to engender friendly and informal relations depends upon the type of contact . |
| 14 | But this type of contact also demonstrates that the neighbourhood police see themselves as having a welfare function . |
| 15 | Major firms like General Motors and Heinz no longer see themselves as machines needing only periodic maintenance to run forever . |
| 16 | Despite his sneering tone , Sir Bernard is undoubtedly right that too many journalists , brought up on Watergate , see themselves as saintly crusaders and all government as conspiracy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They see themselves faced with starvation . |
| 19 | As on the shore of the Reed Sea , they see themselves facing defeat and extermination in battle . |
| 20 | You often find , for example , that teenage girls who are just slightly overweight see themselves as massively obese . |
| 21 | When Honecker visited the Federal Republic in 1987 , Oskar Lafontaine declared , ‘ Both Helmut Schmidt in his day and Erich Honecker now see themselves as balancing between their own security interests and those of the respective superpower ’ . |
| 22 | In the book the generals see themselves as the heroes anxious to save America . |
| 23 | Most skinheads see themselves as straightforward blokes and birds , more honest than the soul boys , more working class than the punks and the posers , rougher and tougher than the mods . |
| 24 | Spurned by the Press , subject to unprovoked and vicious assaults by immigrants and policemen alike , denied gainful or meaningful employment by a heartless State , barred from the domestic hearth by severe , unyielding parents , the skinheads often see themselves as victims of almost Biblical proportions — as a stricken race of Jobs , as modern wanderers cast out into a cheerless world … |
| 25 | Here the courts see themselves as charged with evaluating such concepts further and , when necessary , imposing their own views . |
| 26 | Furthermore , to the extent that some doctors , especially those recently trained , see themselves as medical scientists solving problems and dispensing cures , rather than fundamentally caring for their patients , they may , in fact , be guilty of distancing themselves from , if not abandoning , their dying patients . |
| 27 | Why do older people not see themselves as old ? |
| 28 | This leads to a process of amplification or snowballing : individuals who are caught and labelled as criminal see themselves so and act accordingly , thus the label becomes more widely applied and firmly fixed , and the criminal becomes more attached to that label . |
| 29 | Headteachers will soon discover that , among their Danish counterparts , ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |