Example sentences of "they see as " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they began formulating plans to take what they saw as rightly theirs , without waiting for their father 's demise . |
| 2 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 3 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 4 | They started buying artifacts that they saw as environmentally benign — with remarkable effect . |
| 5 | From the standpoint of more worldly considerations , the signing of the concordat soothed the irritation of those Catholics who did not like the trend towards closer relations with what they saw as Protestant — that is , heretic — America ( although they must also have recognized that the Catholic political and economic lobby in the United States was large , rich and influential ) . |
| 6 | They are not paid to raise unnecessary dust in the formulation of a project ; they are paid to design a project to spend earmarked funds in a way that they see as ‘ best ’ . |
| 7 | However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale ; many published opinions throw it in as a sop , a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian ‘ fable ’ , in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 8 | But these arguments rest on a belief in a general vocational potential for something like ‘ good mothering ’ , which they see as fundamentally a property of individuals . |
| 9 | Instead , they have concentrated on two main approaches to crime control that they see as appropriate and achievable : increasing the risks and decreasing the opportunities . |
| 10 | Other authors have tried to use the theory of long waves in ways that escape from these characteristics , which they see as problematical . |
| 11 | Many functionalists maintain that the order and stability they see as essential for the maintenance of the social system are largely provided by value consensus . |