Example sentences of "seeing [art] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 2 | The -e has become attracted to the -ly ; the speller is seeing the word as a whole , instead of as love + ly |
| 3 | Such explanations of state behaviour are ‘ society-centred ’ , seeing the state as a cipher , a machine or a mirror in our vocabulary . |
| 4 | Yet there can be little doubt that this demand for equality , even though not apparent in the Neolithic case , but so insistent and widespread in all modern societies , is a direct consequence of seeing the state as the milch-mother . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's seeing the university as a factory where people are given identifiable , quantifiable market skills which plug into an entrepreneurial vision of society . |
| 6 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 7 | The putative identity of labourism and the Labour Party is questionable , and , given a powerfully argued case for seeing the party as an integral part of the national culture , rather surprising . |
| 8 | This would be quite consistent with seeing the product as a high-yielding ‘ cash cow ’ in the mature stage of its life-cycle . |
| 9 | ‘ It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon . |
| 10 | Feminists think not , seeing the family as one of the main sources responsible for the continued subordination of women . |
| 11 | The added complication of seeing the image as a vehicle of ‘ representation ’ is also unwarranted . |
| 12 | It is a matter of seeing the enemy as a human being created by God and who needs to be transformed and not destroyed . |
| 13 | Some research in this area seems to indicate that this may be due to perception of the father as the more powerful figure ( according to the classic structure of our society ) , with the result of greater ambiguity in seeing the mother as a desirable model for identification . |
| 14 | ‘ We reiterated our support for US help and our reasons for seeing the envoy as one way in which the United States should express its friendship to Ireland and to Britain . ’ |
| 15 | The prevailing view , however , is less extreme , seeing the menopause as a natural life event , and that the problems women experience in middle age stem from external social causes . |
| 16 | It lends itself quite suitably to the UK sporting scene which is populated by many black sportsmen growing up in broken homes , settling on the side of the mother and eventually seeing the father as an anathema , as did Repton heavyweight Ray Tabi : |
| 17 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 18 | Louisiana 's other senator , Bennett Johnston , is firmly in the Boren camp , seeing the BTU as a make-or-break issue . |
| 19 | Certainly , it is interesting that trees in general , and , more especially , the more phallic-shaped cypresses and other evergreens , play a significant role in the myths associated with the Attis cult ( not to mention the cases of Adonis , Tammuz , Osiris — and , if we are correct in seeing the Cross as a tree — Christ ) . |
| 20 | This ranges all the way from a peace-at-any-price avoidance of anything that even looks like a conflict , to seeing a conflict as a sporting competition with one more opportunity to win . |
| 21 | Bearing this in mind can help to bring cantata performances to life , for it liberates one from seeing a cantata as a mere succession of recitatives and airs . |
| 22 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194–219 ) |
| 23 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 24 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |