Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 2 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 5 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 6 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 7 | No doubt his personal friendship with Wyatt , which was sustained throughout the work , helped , but Scott , with some justification , seemed to regard himself as the senior partner . |
| 8 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 9 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 12 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 13 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 14 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers . |
| 16 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
| 17 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |
| 18 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 19 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 20 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 23 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 24 | However , as a Party it has managed to project itself as the supporter of law and order , and simultaneously to construct the parties of opposition as the supporters of disorder , misrule and irresponsibility . |