Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 4 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives . |
| 7 | This argument was later extended with respect to the experience of living in the modern metropolis , which Simmel suggests provides for a massive intensification of stimulation and experience , but which threatens to overwhelm us as objective culture ( 1950 : 409–24 ) . |
| 8 | Er , that 's I mean , I think if you really , in these cases you have to count them as different words just like I mean maths and physics does n't mean what maths used to mean in English . |
| 9 | He must be a fine horseman since Stephen had chosen to employ him as head groom . |