Example sentences of "of ourselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 2 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 3 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 4 | The reasons for our mortality become obvious as soon as we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals . |
| 5 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 6 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 7 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 8 | Psychological alienation provides Such with a narrative pretext for bringing the theories of post-Einsteinian science to bear on the way we conceive of ourselves as individuals in relation to other people . |
| 9 | As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are . |
| 10 | Yet whether we think of ourselves as secularist or as religious , we can not be absolutely certain in such a way that our certainty can not be challenged by other people . |