Example sentences of "[vb base] themselves as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 2 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 3 | This happens most often when massive shoals of fry from that year 's spawning present themselves as an easy meal to a shoal of bream . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 6 | In other words , the document is a statement of a problem from which the writers clearly regard themselves as the innocent sufferers . |
| 7 | The proprietors style themselves as a Fawlty Towers Italian restaurant ! |
| 8 | Tynesiders see themselves as a seafaring people with all that implies . |
| 9 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 10 | 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 . |