Example sentences of "[verb] they as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 2 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 3 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 4 | We can learn to see them as people loved by God , and for whom Christ died . |
| 5 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 6 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 7 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 8 | Instead of seeing money — or love , time , success or joy — as in short supply , we will come to see them as our natural birthright , letting them flow through our lives with great ease . |
| 9 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 10 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 11 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 12 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 13 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 14 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 15 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |
| 16 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 17 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 18 | We fail to see them as people who have a voice , who have needs and feelings . |
| 19 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 20 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 21 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 22 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 23 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 24 | ‘ I am going to see them as Marie Wilson 's dad . |
| 25 | The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church . |
| 26 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 27 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 28 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 29 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 30 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |