Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 2 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 3 | ‘ I am going to see them as Marie Wilson 's dad . |
| 4 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 5 | We can learn to see them as people loved by God , and for whom Christ died . |
| 6 | We fail to see them as people who have a voice , who have needs and feelings . |
| 7 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 9 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 10 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 11 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 12 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 13 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 14 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 15 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 16 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 17 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 18 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 19 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 20 | Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners . |
| 21 | ‘ We could take them home and sell them as pets . |
| 22 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 23 | Moreover , users had access to files or documents held by social services that concerned them as individuals . |
| 24 | whether it is not in the public interest to treat them as benefits ; and |
| 25 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 26 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 27 | We 're extremely interested in the women we try to treat them as individuals we cope with a lot of problems and I think if we look as women as individuals , each individual woman has a different problem . |
| 28 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 29 | At the beginning of the war with England the French crown , denied the use of the ports and coastline of Brittany and Aquitaine , had to witness the English army enjoying access to both , and using them as bastions on the continental mainland from which to launch attacks into territories ruled by the king of France . |
| 30 | With synthetic fabrics , it may be sufficient to just stop wearing them and using them as bedding for a while , to see if this is beneficial . |