Example sentences of "[noun] see [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 2 | Aoun sees start of a revolution . |
| 3 | The king of Syria sees Judaea as a city-state , however peculiar , with its senate and other well-defined corporations , priests , scribes , singers . |
| 4 | The falsificationist sees science as a set of hypotheses that are tentatively proposed with the aim of accurately describing or accounting for the behaviour of some aspect of the world or universe . |
| 5 | David saw ACSS as a pressure group ( ‘ Not like Greenpeace . |
| 6 | Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum . |
| 7 | It seems that these authors see mind as an entity distinct from the processes that support it . |
| 8 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 9 | The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre . |
| 10 | The Elves see Khaine as a god of unleashed violence . |
| 11 | While the politicians see PEBs as a device for party propaganda , the broadcasters see PEBs as a platform for parties to inform the electorate by stating their case rather than chanting their slogans . |
| 12 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |
| 13 | Wilden sees structuralism as a metaphor of the discourse of science which provides the structure which defines meaning : |
| 14 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 15 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 16 | The best known elitist image of state — society relations sees government as a machine controlled by non-state elites . |
| 17 | On the one hand Marx saw Darwinism as a materialist explanation of man , and he sought theories of the evolution of human societies which similarly explained the process in terms of the changing nature of human production and reproduction . |
| 18 | IN HIS DREAM , Cameron Nielson Jr saw life as a motion picture , unspooling steadily in the white-hot gaze of the bulb , the past piling up like celluloid string on the projection booth floor . |
| 19 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 20 | You must have noticed how most people see change as a threat , something to deny . |
| 21 | Some biologists saw ecology as a science that would help to support the exploitation of the environment by showing how to minimize the damage caused . |
| 22 | But it is a mistake to see Anselm as an instigator of this process . |
| 23 | Morrissey sees video as a dilution of lyrical emotion and a distraction from the lack of such within the song . |
| 24 | The humour was devastatingly fresh and Vic and his sidekick Bob saw life from a sort of vaguely diagonal point of view . |
| 25 | Some years ago , my father built an 8in rise-and-fall tilt arbour saw bench from a set of plans produced by Cliff Bowers . |
| 26 | This letter implies that Richardson saw Leapor as a poet of genuine merit . |
| 27 | A date stone , 1784 , is on the adjoining bakehouse , which later in life saw service as a blacksmith 's shop . |
| 28 | Conservative Members see Britain as a low-pay , low-cost centre of production . |
| 29 | In 1900 it denied that hysteria had ‘ anything to do with sexual passion , either with its excitement , suppression or gratification ’ , and in a discussion in 1914 a doctor saw hysteria as a product of inactivity in a section of the brain so that ‘ the less a hysterical patient likes any line of treatment , the more good it is likely to do if firmly applied . |
| 30 | Olive Edis saw portraiture as an art and worked on her belief that ‘ the photograph … should be the X-ray of the soul . |