Example sentences of "longer [vb base] themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 2 | It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena — they no longer restrict themselves to Greek ! ) |
| 3 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 4 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 5 | Major firms like General Motors and Heinz no longer see themselves as machines needing only periodic maintenance to run forever . |
| 6 | Third , how can this shift be played out in the portrayal of disabled people in relationship to their impairment so that they no longer see themselves as able-bodied people who are flawed . |