Example sentences of "saw themselves as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The delegates , again often chosen by public meetings , saw themselves as the aroused mass of principled antislavery , cutting across the political and religious differences of their communities .
2 The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties .
3 The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel .
4 Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment .
5 Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life .
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