Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] themselves as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ .
2	Indeed , when the German Communists reconstituted themselves as a political party ( the DKP ) in October 1968 , the Bonn government saw no need to ban them , because orthodox Communists did not seem a threat .
3	The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties .
4	Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life .
5	The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel .
6	However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group .
7	The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state .
8	The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin .
9	Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment .
10	Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be .
11	The proprietors style themselves as a Fawlty Towers Italian restaurant !

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