Example sentences of "see [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that that chance will come until your husband retires so , in the meantime , you must learn to see Germany as your home . |
| 2 | He wanted other states to see Romania as part of neither bloc . |
| 3 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 4 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 5 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 6 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 7 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 8 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 9 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 10 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 11 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 12 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 13 | Now , we 've seen Jane as a passionate , spirited outspoken little girl have n't we ? |
| 14 | There were later rumours that the gesture , however sincere , cost Toshack the Liverpool management when Bob Paisley retired ; he had certainly seen Swansea as his apprenticeship . |
| 15 | Some philosophers of religion have seen God as a higher stage of this process . |
| 16 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |
| 17 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 18 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 19 | Boss Ian Porterfield hinted he now sees Newton as a partner for the hapless Robert Fleck . |
| 20 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 21 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 22 | It makes sense for this alternative establishment to be pro-European , not only because it is in tune with the music Jacques Delors is making , but because it sees Brussels as a counterpoise to London.This is why it has been pointless to question the sincerity of Kinnock 's conversion to Europe . |
| 23 | Eastern philosophy in a western key A Chinese composer who sees Scotland as a second musical home , talks to Mary Miller |
| 24 | The fundamental difference is Labour sees Scotland as its territory . |
| 25 | Manager Joe Kinnear , robbed of the injured John Fashanu , sees Cork as a short-term solution — and Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett would not stand in the way of his great pal . |
| 26 | Big puncher Benn sees Piper as a useful ‘ warm-up ’ before a lucrative return match with WBO champion Chris Eubank next spring . |
| 27 | But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea . |
| 28 | She sees Cather as a writer whose work ‘ gets its energy from contraries ’ . |
| 29 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 30 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |