Example sentences of "to identify [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A white-collar job , owning a home or indulging in particular leisure pursuits may cause a person to identify himself as ‘ middle class ’ ; others may consider anyone who ‘ works , to be ‘ working class ’ ; others may preserve a sense of being ‘ working class ’ because of their family background , though their own social circumstances have changed . |
| 3 | Unluckily , the model begins to identify himself with his divine original and violence threatens . |
| 4 | Paul VI was from then on unable to identify himself with the ‘ progressives ’ in a way he had managed hitherto . |
| 5 | Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts . |
| 6 | The lyric poet ( in general ) is a composer first and foremost and , as such , a Dionysiac artist who surrenders his egoistic subjectivity to identify himself with the true metaphysical reality and reflect it in music . |
| 7 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 8 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 9 | The church of the apostolic age sought to identify itself with the ‘ poor ’ whom Jesus had declared blessed ( Luke 6 : 20 ) ; or had he meant the ‘ poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. 5 : 3 ) , the humble-hearted , who could hold their property without pride as means to support the destitute ? |
| 10 | Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship . |
| 11 | ‘ Who are we expecting , then ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who , like all good servants , was beginning to identify herself with her employers , and was one reason for her surprising success as a maid of all work . |
| 12 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 13 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 14 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 15 | Because the mood in Japan is changing , and candidates want to identify themselves with reform . |
| 16 | If their origins were in an academic discipline , they are often no longer able to identify themselves with it — or are discouraged from doing so by their more specialised fellows . |
| 17 | Outwardly there was a refusal to identify themselves with a class label . |
| 18 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 19 | On the face of it , this is similar to accommodation theory : speakers approximate their interlocutors ' linguistic behaviour , or distance themselves from it , depending on whether or not they wish to identify themselves with that individual . |
| 20 | Some constables initially played up to the fact that their remarks would be appearing in print , hoping to identify themselves by saying something outrageous which was then suffixed by ‘ How about that for a quote for the book ? ’ |
| 21 | Tanks and policemen armed with submachineguns have been deployed at airports ; members of Parliament have been issued with special badges to identify themselves inside Westminster . |
| 22 | Fans dress carefully in order to identify themselves within their group . |
| 23 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 24 | It was best to identify oneself in relation to one 's clerical superior . |