Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reigning world champion , who turned his back on Formula One after he was outmanoeuvred by Alain Prost last season , has established himself as runaway favourite to win the Indycar championship . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | He would n't have described himself as landed gentry — or if he did it would be with irony . |
| 4 | But the spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and idleness . |
| 5 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 6 | This may be achieved by engaging in what Matza ( 1969:93 ) refers to as ‘ natural reduction ’ , that is , reducing oneself — the subject — into a thing-like object incapable of transcending circumstances , which in this particular mundane instance means viewing oneself as incapable of disobeying orders from high places . |
| 7 | But the Mahomeds have established themselves as solid citizens . |