Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 2 | We do not want to carry the image of middle age in other people 's eyes , nor do we wish to think of ourselves as getting old . |
| 3 | This is no exaggeration : though primarily a moralist , Arnold was almost equally a political reformer , and he thought of himself as performing a service to the state . |
| 4 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 5 | Although Hutcheson thought of himself as defending the reality of moral distinctions , and the genuineness of a morally good benevolence which was not egoistically based , other thinkers were not happy with his treatment . |
| 6 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 7 | Freya , like many other girls who wrote to me , mentions her low opinion of herself as leading to , or contributing to , her anorexia . |
| 8 | She likes to think of herself as coming from a higher social class . |
| 9 | Ianthe was not as yet bold enough to break away from her upbringing and background , and while she did not often think of herself as marrying now , she still hoped , perhaps even expected , that somebody ‘ suitable ’ would turn up one day . |
| 10 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 11 | In answer to the question ‘ do you ever think of yourself as belonging to a particular social class ? ’ |
| 12 | Check over all the things you have written down earlier in the preparation phase and make sure you have a full picture of yourself as regards health-related habits . |
| 13 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 14 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 15 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 16 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 17 | What little ‘ trouble ’ there is virtually disappears as the pupils rise up the school , developing a conception of themselves as valued persons within the official framework . |
| 18 | None is more important than the seeing of themselves as valued and important people , each with a separate and positive sense of identity . |
| 19 | Women come to think of themselves as debilitated and polluted , rather than magically powerful , because of their bleeding . |
| 20 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 21 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 22 | However , if I do think of myself as making a considered choice , can I deny the justice of your reproach ? |
| 23 | No I ca n't er I ca n't think of myself as doing that again . |
| 24 | Yes , no I ca n't erm , I ca n't think of myself as doing that again . |
| 25 | ‘ At fourteen I thought of myself as having potential — the usual things : getting a boyfriend , going out with my friends — then after the loss of my leg , all that was shattered . |
| 26 | Perhaps , like Letterman , I think of myself as having some useful feminine understanding . |