Example sentences of "establish [pn reflx] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business . |
| 2 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 3 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 4 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 5 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 6 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 7 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 11 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 12 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 13 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 14 | One of the first kennels to establish itself as a consistent winner in the show ring was the Tankerville Kennel . |
| 15 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 16 | To be fished on the prolific waters around Galway this new event promises to establish itself as one of Ireland 's best . |
| 17 | The struggle of American sociology to establish itself as a distinct ‘ scientific ’ discipline dominates the early reactions to Mannheim 's work . |
| 18 | The PC is also beginning to establish itself as a consumer item , as demonstrated by its appearance in high street retail chains like Dixons , Wildings and John Lewis . |
| 19 | It was on the basis of this document that the Roman Church asserted its prerogative to create kings , as well as to establish itself as a temporal authority . |
| 20 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
| 21 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | This suggests that while entry to the eurobond market is easy , it is more difficult for a firm to establish itself as a dominant player . |
| 23 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |
| 24 | The Commissioner herself was sensitive to this perception , and was keen , right from the start , to establish herself as an independent and neutral body . |
| 25 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 26 | The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | And besides , Women 's Word had worked very hard to establish themselves as serious publishers . |
| 29 | This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit . |
| 30 | To establish myself as a Test player and not only a one-day player . |