Example sentences of "themselves as [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 2 | I very much hope that board members will be able to take a broad view and not regard themselves as speaking for any narrow interest groups . |
| 3 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 6 | They see themselves as belonging to a radical and anti-establishment tradition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alternatively , where the members of the single community under study perceive themselves as belonging to a number of separate kin groups which do not intermarry , this is a matter of great sociological significance regardless of what may or may not be the actual biological facts of the case . |
| 9 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 10 | The metaphor is apt , as Palestinians regard themselves as engaging in a process of giving birth to their independent Palestinian state . |
| 11 | Information from the Novices showed quite clearly that they all saw themselves as working towards a position at the back of the terrace . |
| 12 | Indeed , those in the Behaviouralist camp saw themselves as working within an intellectual framework altogether different from that inhabited by the Realists . |
| 13 | Both the ELA and the new Shipping Federation , however , saw themselves as responding to the same trade union incursions into their members ' prerogatives . |
| 14 | When Honecker visited the Federal Republic in 1987 , Oskar Lafontaine declared , ‘ Both Helmut Schmidt in his day and Erich Honecker now see themselves as balancing between their own security interests and those of the respective superpower ’ . |
| 15 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 16 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 17 | Unless steps have been taken to ensure that the people of the organisation are fully informed of the changes that are proposed , that they support the changes , and see themselves as gaining from them , then there is no reason to assume that they will cooperate with the changes : indeed , there is good reason to assume that they will try to ensure that the changes do not work . |
| 18 | Unfortunately these two categories overlap , whilst those temporary workers ( or those who are giving proxy answers for them ) who are unsure of the precise nature of their temporary employment are also more likely to describe themselves as falling into the first category . |