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 | Again , the boys , having valued themselves highly as pupils , apparently proceed to ‘ discount ’ the girls . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The difference is that the poststructuralists put themselves forth as heterodox prophets and turn out to be priests of convention . |
| 9 | In Marx 's words , ‘ The existing relations of production between individuals must necessarily express themselves also as political and legal relations . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Contrary to expectations studies show that most people continue to regard themselves positively as they grow older . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The All Blacks assembled yesterday for a rugged training session but have been unable to prepare themselves fully as the Lions have delayed selection for another 24-hours due to ever increasing injury problems . |
| 14 | Various groups put themselves forward as entitled to control or govern either parts or the whole of Somalia . |
| 15 | The question is , how did these people come to see themselves primarily as nervous and only secondarily as hungry , malnourished ? |
| 16 | It is important for the buyer 's conveyancer to explain the difference between the significance of joint tenants holding in trust for themselves either as tenants in common or as joint tenants . |