Example sentences of "[noun sg] to present [pn reflx] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful Peronist in San Luis , incumbent governor Alberto RodrÃguez Saa , announced his intention to present himself as a candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 2 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 3 | Psychology 's concern to present itself as a self-contained discourse means that connections with specific historical and social circumstances , even with other discourses , can in the end play little part in it . |
| 4 | The year following the final Soviet withdrawal of troops was marked by the collapse of the mujaheddin as a real military threat to the Kabul government , and by the failure of its government to present itself as a viable political alternative . |
| 5 | The obverse of his strength as party leader in the peculiar circumstances of British politics today has been his inability to present himself as a national leader . |
| 6 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 7 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |