Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] ourselves [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 2 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |
| 3 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 4 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 5 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half . |
| 7 | ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us . |
| 8 | Just create a problem for ourselves at the moment . |
| 9 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |