Example sentences of "see [noun prp] as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world .
2 But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Wednesday 's John Sheridan sees Atkinson as the future England partner to Blackburn 's Alan Shearer .
5 He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless .
6 There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service .
7 To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions .
8 Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’
9 Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 .
10 He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw .
11 This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony .
12 This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony .
13 In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs .
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