Example sentences of "ourselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 2 | ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel . |
| 3 | The other is ourselves as the stranger . |
| 4 | One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together . |
| 5 | He is convinced we have to adopt entirely new value systems , change our philosophical orientation and spiritual thinking ; stop behaving as though the earth is here for mankind 's personal convenience and learn to regard ourselves as one small part of a much larger whole . |
| 6 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 7 | We do — quite practically and with useful influence — if we choose to cast ourselves as a vigorous , amending , debating part of the European team . |
| 8 | But we see ourselves as a sound system , and in a way everybody is a part of Motion Incorporated . |
| 9 | It at last gives Renault a diesel flagship worthy of the name , a car that should help Phil Horton and his team , in his words , ‘ position ourselves as a major player in the U.K. diesel league with the aim of taking more fleet sales from our competitors . ’ |
| 10 | We give up seeing ourselves as ‘ the dream child ’ , ‘ the shadow child ’ , ‘ the rejected child ’ , or any of the other wounded images that affect our relationships with others . |
| 11 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 12 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 13 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 14 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 15 | We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school . |
| 16 | All this is widely socially sanctioned , so we can hardly describe ourselves as ‘ animal lovers ’ . |
| 17 | They make a permanent and pleasurable addition to ourselves as individuals . |
| 18 | It is really a question of where we feel happiest , and how much we see ourselves as part of nature rather than in conflict with it . |
| 19 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 20 | ‘ We see ourselves as professional advisers to businessmen , ’ explains Mr Smaje . |
| 21 | Frustrated at the limited roles offered to black actresses , they produced On A Level , a revue-style show ‘ which gave us a chance to express ourselves as artists , not stereotypes ’ . |
| 22 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 23 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 24 | The reasons for our mortality become obvious as soon as we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals . |
| 25 | That decision to organize ourselves as a group was a really important step forward for us as workers and for the organization . |
| 26 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 27 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 28 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 29 | Children and young people are entitled to the same levels of respect , consultation and competent practice that we advocate for ourselves as professional workers . |
| 30 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |