Example sentences of "to see themselves [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period .
2 But Europeans are increasingly keen ( 1992 and all that ) to see themselves as cultural pioneers and not to emulate the United States .
3 This model of internal marketing can be applied to schools through encouraging teachers to see themselves as customers .
4 Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) .
5 In time , however , learners and trained staff welcome the opportunity to see themselves as others see them , and endeavour to improve their skills .
6 In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation .
7 However , diaries kept by parents can produce valuable information and also help parents to see themselves as active partners in the assessment process .
8 Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries .
9 As a result , many undoubtedly experienced deep feelings of isolation and alienation , and came to see themselves as prophets in the wilderness or pilgrims journeying through hostile territory .
10 These examples indicate some of the features of girl friendly science : it builds on girls ' interests , not just boys ' ; it explicitly encourages girls to see themselves as potential scientists , and it includes some of the social and human implications and applications of science .
11 They were no longer so ready to see themselves as isolated settlements on the sea coast , unrelated to each other and uninterested in the interior .
12 It is important to see themselves as ‘ good ’ people .
13 In the same debate Mr Mellor restated the government 's intention of encouraging local authorities to make greater use of the private and voluntary sectors and to see themselves as enablers rather than providers .
14 Problems that arise include the unwillingness of clinicians to see themselves as resource managers .
15 It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists .
16 In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world .
17 This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems .
18 It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly .
19 Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective .
20 Their subconscious mind , however , has not progressed beyond the guilt stage and they continue to see themselves in their inner mind as bad people who deserve nothing better than to be victims .
21 Thus if they are consistently defined as disreputable or respectable , servile or arrogant , they will tend to see themselves in this light and act accordingly .
22 The purpose of recording interviews is to give students a chance to see themselves in a situation where they ca n't predict the direction an exchange may take .
23 Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena .
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