Example sentences of "[verb] themselves as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 2 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 3 | Fats and sugars have revealed themselves as the real villains . |
| 4 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 5 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 6 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 7 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 8 | These manifest themselves as the impulsive gravitational waves ( 15.10 ) which may be considered to be generated by the collision . |
| 9 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 10 | The delegates , again often chosen by public meetings , saw themselves as the aroused mass of principled antislavery , cutting across the political and religious differences of their communities . |
| 11 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 12 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 13 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 14 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 15 | Many have a clear sense of class , recognizing themselves as the exploited , subjected to the petty extortion and corruption of the market administration , the police and other security forces . |
| 16 | The government-backed unions are trying to portray themselves as the true and uncompromising voice of the workers : ’ outflanking Solidarity to the left ’ , as one commentator put it . |
| 17 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 18 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
| 19 | primitive people regarded themselves as the only humans . |
| 20 | The two ladies , breathless after their struggle with their German shepherd dog , announced themselves as the two Misses Bradshaw . |
| 21 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 22 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 23 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 24 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 25 | In other words , the document is a statement of a problem from which the writers clearly regard themselves as the innocent sufferers . |
| 26 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 27 | The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin . |
| 28 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |