Example sentences of "ourselves as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , obviously we pride ourselves as officers on our man management . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 4 | It reminds me of the words of Robbie Burns , oh would the Gods the gift to gi us , to see ourselves as others see us . |
| 5 | It is really a question of where we feel happiest , and how much we see ourselves as part of nature rather than in conflict with it . |
| 6 | Frustrated at the limited roles offered to black actresses , they produced On A Level , a revue-style show ‘ which gave us a chance to express ourselves as artists , not stereotypes ’ . |
| 7 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 8 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
| 9 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 10 | ourselves , well we 've got ta protect ourselves as carriers against other people saying ah ! |
| 11 | They make a permanent and pleasurable addition to ourselves as individuals . |
| 12 | The reasons for our mortality become obvious as soon as we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 15 | He was somewhat taken aback when we identified ourselves as Customs , muttering something about clearing customs at Poole Quay later . |
| 16 | Every single operation we go on whether we are in uniform or in plain clothes er and we are carrying a firearm , we need to identify ourselves as police officers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 20 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 21 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 22 | One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together . |