Example sentences of "see [noun] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 2 | The post-war changes were designed to encourage equality for all , but successive governments appear to have seen education as a vote winner and have made promises which they have failed to keep . |
| 3 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 4 | → We do n't really see Guitarist as a poster magazine , although we appreciate the fact that you approve so highly of James Cumpsty 's photos . |
| 5 | Rather than pub landlord or beanery boss , Lorne saw Gary as a celebrity restaurateur . |
| 6 | But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph . |
| 7 | David saw ACSS as a pressure group ( ‘ Not like Greenpeace . |
| 8 | According to one authority , ‘ Most close observers of the Washington scene and system saw Reagan as a media success who would be overwhelmed by the immense substantive and managerial demands of the presidency . ’ |
| 9 | Craig is adamant he never saw Neighbours as a launch pad for his musical career . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |