Example sentences of "[pers pn] consider themselves to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They consider themselves to be pillars of society with long-standing royal patronage and a fine reputation for giving away millions of pounds in charity . |
| 2 | The impact of factors such as family size , religion , how long women have lived in the UK , and how westernized they consider themselves to be are examined . |
| 3 | Because they consider themselves to be strong , in power , in positions of power and coping well , and then all of a sudden to have something like this war going and carpet bombing going on and the use of chemical weapons and germ warfare . |
| 4 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 5 | But since good teachers , like the project staff at Ife , put children first , they considered themselves to be in duty bound to devise the best possible workable curriculum for the school . |
| 6 | In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills . |
| 7 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |