Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself as " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is also a famously independent place , for long the capital of this little region of Baréges , and sufficiently cut off to administer itself as another of the remarkably enlightened mountain ‘ republics ’ . |
| 32 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 33 | ( 5 ) Postmodern culture seems to proclaim itself as an avant-garde at the same time as announcing that avant.gardes no longer exist . |
| 34 | In other words , football has to learn how to market itself as an event once more . |
| 35 | Football has to learn how to market itself as an event once more . |
| 36 | The party was also to redefine itself as " the vanguard of all working people " instead of " the vanguard of the working class " . |
| 37 | This is only possible after the child has been forced to recognize itself as ‘ il ’ , as an object of exchange between its parents . |
| 38 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 39 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 40 | He had just persuaded the Operative Builders Union to restructure itself as the Grand National Guild of Builders . |
| 41 | Until a sane , liberal regime is restored within the party itself , it will not be fully re-equipped either to arrive at the right policy choices or to project itself as a responsive party to the electorate . |
| 42 | However , as a Party it has managed to project itself as the supporter of law and order , and simultaneously to construct the parties of opposition as the supporters of disorder , misrule and irresponsibility . |
| 43 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 44 | In the ensuing election campaign foreign affairs were unusually prominent , with Labour trying to project itself as a better defender of the peace than the Tories . |
| 45 | In further indications of a relaxation of one-party rule , the country 's only trade union federation , the Central Council of Albanian Trade Unions ( KQBPS ) , on Dec. 23 announced its intention to act independently in future and to re-form itself as a " pluralist association " . |
| 46 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 47 | Rug-making declined after the late 18th century , and only in the last 20 years has Egypt begun to re-establish itself as an important force . |
| 48 | After being on the receiving end of the challenge which brought Marsh 's late dismissal , he allowed Piatnitski to complete a night which showed the strides the home side must make if it is to re-establish itself as a European force . |
| 49 | Labour will try this week to portray itself as the party of hope , with policies on education , training and health . |
| 50 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 51 | A policy of legality and the maintenance of public order was officially adopted by the BUF in its attempt to portray itself as a responsible organization . |
| 52 | Like LOEX it operates on a subscription-fee basis , but unlike LOEX it has a relatively small catchment number of libraries which might subscribe , and because of this its ability to maintain itself as a self-financing clearinghouse is in question . |
| 53 | Psychology 's concern to present itself as a self-contained discourse means that connections with specific historical and social circumstances , even with other discourses , can in the end play little part in it . |
| 54 | The fact that it also rejects punishment in favour of individualised treatment geared to the particular needs of the offender has meant that , unlike deterrence , it has managed to present itself as a humane , caring alternative to the ‘ primitive revenge ’ of retribution . |
| 55 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 56 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 57 | The year following the final Soviet withdrawal of troops was marked by the collapse of the mujaheddin as a real military threat to the Kabul government , and by the failure of its government to present itself as a viable political alternative . |
| 58 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 59 | Although theoretically the benevolent side of the dialectic was as likely to manifest itself as the malevolent , it is the nature of this sort of thinking that Mr Hyde always predominates over Dr Jekyll and lurks behind his actions like a puppeteer . |
| 60 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |