Example sentences of "[verb] themselves as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest , some sick of national stereotyping , listed themselves as Yugoslavs , Turks , Jews , Gypsies , Eskimos , Giraffes or Lampshades . |
| 2 | They asked to come in , announcing themselves as an instant party . |
| 3 | Even before 5 October 1968 it was clear that the radicals around the DHAC were beginning to lose the initiative and would be unable to consolidate themselves as an alternative leadership for anti-Unionists in the city . |
| 4 | There was always an enormous difference between the economic perceptions of those who initially had Conservative and Labour preferences , especially those who described themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 5 | Only nine per cent of Moxon-Browne 's survey described themselves as evangelicals , but 74.5 per cent gave ‘ fear of the power of the Roman Catholic Church ’ as their reason for being unionist . |
| 6 | They described themselves as a ‘ movement ’ for the simple reason that ‘ movements ’ tend to be better things ( implying progress and struggle for right against entrenched powers ) than ‘ establishments ’ or ‘ institutions ’ . |
| 7 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 8 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 9 | In 1974 23% of teenagers described themselves as daily smokers . |
| 10 | In their languages they described themselves as ‘ the man ’ or ‘ the human ’ . |
| 11 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 12 | As he spoke he slipped into the description of what had been achieved , emphasizing that staff , increasingly , described themselves as a single body ( " what we say clearly … " , " what we need to do next … " ) . |
| 13 | Some sole practitioners described themselves as ‘ scape goats ’ and victims of a ‘ witch hunt ’ . |
| 14 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 15 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 16 | The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force . |
| 17 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 18 | And besides , Women 's Word had worked very hard to establish themselves as serious publishers . |
| 19 | This being the case , the couple have to work hard to establish themselves as a new adult unit . |
| 20 | As when you act for a seller or mortgagor , add any other documents which suggest themselves as the matter proceeds . |
| 21 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
| 22 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 23 | Historically , those who would describe themselves as ‘ animal welfarists ’ have answered this question in the following way . |
| 24 | By using a Greek derivation , foot lovers could always describe themselves as podophiles . |
| 25 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 26 | In Europe they would probably describe themselves as transsexuals and have a full sex change . |
| 27 | In Phil Alden Robinson 's adaptation of W.P.Kinsella 's book , Kevin Costner , Hollywood 's latest superstar , plays a New York boy with a hang-up about his father who has taken his wife ( Amy Madigan ) and daughter off to an Iowan farm to find themselves as a family . |
| 28 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 29 | These wild Gaelic-speaking men may have once lived in bothies , but when in Brighton they regarded themselves as raiders in a strange and hostile land . |
| 30 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |