Example sentences of "[adv] see as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we climbed higher the jungle became more marshy and exotic , with the sort of plants you usually only see as plastic decorations . |
| 2 | Normally see as people as the cars come out the lights change . |
| 3 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 4 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
| 5 | Their Old Age , from fifty to 62 , we now see as part of Middle Age . |
| 6 | Westfall 's biography attempted to integrate the theology and the alchemy with what we now see as the genuinely ‘ scientific ’ activities of Newton . |
| 7 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 8 | One of these regions would become what we now see as the observable universe . |
| 9 | Some children take on an unnatural , waxen appearance that their mothers sometimes see as a kind of death mask . |