Example sentences of "considers [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 2 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 3 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 4 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 5 | If it feels pain , it considers itself to be under attack . |
| 6 | this does no mean that Bristol considers itself to be outside the Continent . |
| 7 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |