Example sentences of "consider [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 2 | Not many of us consider ourselves to be good listeners . |
| 3 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 4 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 5 | The Albanians of Yugoslavia ( not only those in Kosovo but also elsewhere , especially in Macedonia ) consider themselves to be an oppressed people , who have always been discriminated against by the Serbs , whether under the monarchy or under communist rule . |
| 6 | They consider themselves to be pillars of society with long-standing royal patronage and a fine reputation for giving away millions of pounds in charity . |
| 7 | For too many of its members consider themselves to be over-mighty . |
| 8 | Not all women consider themselves to be beautiful , or indeed wish to be so in conventional terms . |
| 9 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 10 | Many Central Asian men consider themselves to be helpful around the house ; fewer women agree with them . |
| 11 | Public opinion surveys undertaken by the Prime Minister 's Office have , over the past two decades , shown that 80–90 per cent of Japanese consider themselves to be middle class . |
| 12 | I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart . |
| 13 | VAT is a dirty word among small businesses , mainly because this tax places considerable administrative burdens upon business people , who often consider themselves to be unpaid tax collectors . |
| 14 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 15 | The first essential of intensive fieldwork is that the fieldworker should be able to recognize everyone in his vicinity , not just as a set of individuals but as a set of individuals holding named titles to office who consider themselves to be related to one another in a particular way . |
| 16 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 17 | The impact of factors such as family size , religion , how long women have lived in the UK , and how westernized they consider themselves to be are examined . |
| 18 | My wife is English and four of my children live and work in the south of England and consider themselves to be English . |
| 19 | Because they consider themselves to be strong , in power , in positions of power and coping well , and then all of a sudden to have something like this war going and carpet bombing going on and the use of chemical weapons and germ warfare . |
| 20 | Also , if you consider yourself to be faster than the pathfinder board , it is worth starting early , since as you wait for him to reach you , you could be sailing that part faster than him . |
| 21 | If you consider yourself to be in any way progressive , and really want to play your part in demolishing the old legend of natural antagonism between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law , replacing it with the hope of friendship , then this is your chance . |
| 22 | Just try to decide what things you consider yourself to be good at . |
| 23 | Ann de Stratford ( Mrs Seed ) echoes this sentiment : ‘ I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a very happy marriage to someone who has never considered me as anything but an equal . |