Example sentences of "themselves [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This survey shows it is possible for sufferers to help themselves effectively as our programme has proved . |
| 2 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 3 | They do not only make their way through stuffed and clamoring doorways , but emerge from the unseen bowels of the pub , as though they have held themselves privately for days in the cellar , waiting with bated breath , presenting themselves only as the hour grows ripe . |
| 4 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 5 | Again , the boys , having valued themselves highly as pupils , apparently proceed to ‘ discount ’ the girls . |
| 6 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 7 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
| 8 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 9 | They see themselves not as author and illustrator , with separate roles , but as a partnership of ‘ book-makers ’ , contributing equally to the process . |
| 10 | Simultaneously the status of the professional improved as players began to assert themselves not as ‘ club servants ’ or ‘ skilled workmen ’ but as entertainers who should be paid in accordance with their market value . |
| 11 | History indicates that general practice is not so demanding that unqualified people can not pass themselves off as principals for many years and get away with it . |
| 12 | The difference is that the poststructuralists put themselves forth as heterodox prophets and turn out to be priests of convention . |
| 13 | In Marx 's words , ‘ The existing relations of production between individuals must necessarily express themselves also as political and legal relations . ’ |
| 14 | In particular , the political and legal systems will reflect ruling class interests since , in Marx 's words , ‘ The existing relations of production between individuals must necessarily express themselves also as political and legal relations ’ . |
| 15 | Contrary to expectations studies show that most people continue to regard themselves positively as they grow older . |
| 16 | Then there 's a whole other area of work where the filmmakers identify themselves openly as lesbian or gay … but would have a very idiosyncratic stamp on their work . |
| 17 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 18 | In St Albans last year two IRA terrorists blew themselves up as they were planting a 5lbs to 7lbs Semtex bomb destined for Royal Marines bandsmen . |
| 19 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 20 | It is no surprise that Tanzania is the first country in Africa to introduce a less centralised and examination-oriented system of selection for secondary schools and that Zambia intends soon to follow suit , nor that Kenya and Ghana are much concerned with giving primary leavers the skill and the incentive to set themselves up as entrepreneurs when they leave school . |
| 21 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 22 | Or maybe they have forgotten that they are involved in a relationship , and that the consequence of setting themselves up as ‘ professionals ’ automatically cast us in the role of ‘ client ’ . |
| 23 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 24 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 25 | ‘ We made a terrible mistake when the Time Lords set themselves up as guardians of all space and time , ’ Kopyion replied . |
| 26 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 27 | Europe may have turned its back , but the Czechs also sold themselves out as the poles did not . |
| 28 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 29 | Wright because the directors had held themselves out as agents of some of the shareholders and thus were capable of being considered as fiduciaries to those shareholders . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) The British Academy of Experts has its own list of members who hold themselves out as being experts in particular fields and available for compiling reports . |