Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 2 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 3 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 4 | Many have a clear sense of class , recognizing themselves as the exploited , subjected to the petty extortion and corruption of the market administration , the police and other security forces . |
| 5 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 6 | By and large the Nonconformist churches supported the war , destroying themselves as a significant political force in the process . |
| 7 | It 's a free country and everyone has the right to be mind-numbingly stupid if they want , and subsequently I suppose it 's better if they can avoid killing themselves as a direct result . |