Example sentences of "show himself to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 2 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
| 3 | One mattered for him personally : he showed himself to be his own man . |
| 4 | As a child Louis-Napoleon showed himself to be both alert and sensitive , two attributes which made his life difficult , because he was the victim of the unhappy marriage of his parents . |
| 5 | With the publication of what was his most important work apart from the Idées , namely the Extinction du Paupérisme , the Prince showed himself to be aware of the grave socio-economic problems which afflicted the mass of the French people ; to whom he now offered a solution . |
| 6 | Robbe-Grillet showed himself to be willing to embrace this psychological/subjectivist mode of analysis as readily as he had previously accepted Roland Barthes 's imprimatur as the model chosiste . |
| 7 | During his career , the Master of Stair showed himself to be willing and able to flow or turn with the prevailing political tide , changing sides as it suited his purpose or ambition . |
| 8 | In Have I Got News For You he showed himself to be quick , witty and well able to take jokes levelled against himself . |
| 9 | Reagan , on the other hand , soon showed himself to be an effective campaigner who projected an attractive and reassuring image on television . |
| 10 | Although the dauphin , Charles , who assumed power in his father 's place , showed himself to be a fine leader and a man of courage , he appeared in the circumstances to have little choice but to negotiate without giving away too much . |
| 11 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 12 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 13 | At once Sixsmith showed himself to be a person of some candour . |
| 14 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 15 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 16 | After a brief phase of unambiguous Atlanticism at the beginning of the Cold War , de Gaulle soon showed himself to be a cold warrior with one eye on the danger of " le protectorat de Washington " . |
| 17 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 18 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 19 | He shows himself to be here , as he did in his earlier Deconstruction : Theory and Practice , an admirably lucid and urbane expositor of difficult ideas . |
| 20 | In respect of God 's being , the fundamental axiom with which Barth works is that God is ‘ eternally and antecedently in himself ’ what he shows himself to be in Jesus . |
| 21 | More specifically , Lukacs shows himself to be extremely hostile to a number of key concepts on the socialist realist agenda precisely because they are symptomatic of an excessively subjectivist and false , because partial , view of reality . |
| 22 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 23 | Since winning the super-heavyweight gold at last year 's Olympics , the London-born but Canadian-raised fighter has shown himself to be anything but another pugilistic stereotype . |
| 24 | The general opinion around the paddock when I first started in motor racing was that James had early shown himself to be a driver of exceptional reflexes and considerable competitive temperament . |
| 25 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 27 | By introducing tough new health warnings and refusing to give in to the tobacco industry 's demands , Mr Waldegrave has already shown himself to be the most effective Health Minister since Sir George Young 's short tenure . |
| 28 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 29 | He might for example , have shown himself to be a ‘ little hard-nut ’ . |
| 30 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |