Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 2 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 3 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 4 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 5 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 6 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 7 | One ca n't see him in an ambassadorial role at all can one ? |
| 8 | It is a powerful alkaloidal poison , but the Zande do not see it as an ordinary poison but as an autonomous mystical power capable of issuing decisions which are taken very seriously indeed . |
| 9 | Together with the use of the display area it is hoped pupils will be encouraged to use the library as a source of information for homework and classwork on a regular basis and that staff will see it as an important adjunct to their departmental resources . |
| 10 | In most cases the issue raises no problems , but estranged parents using the child to fight their bat ties or rebellious teenagers seeking recognition of their maturity and autonomy against over-protective or interventionist parents may see it as an important issue of principle . |
| 11 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 12 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 13 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 14 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 15 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 16 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 17 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 18 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 19 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 21 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 22 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 23 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 24 | Many saw it as an ideal opportunity for the Prince and Princess to put on a united front , quashing speculation over their marriage . |
| 25 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 27 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 28 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 29 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 30 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |