Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] themselves as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 2 | And although Edgar 's present listening has extended out past the Beach Boys , Credence Clearwater Revival and sundry American garage bands , The Stairs have made an inadvertent name for themselves as the most frighteningly authentic British beat combo in existence . |
| 3 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 4 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 5 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |