Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 3 | William had to fight a much more serious war in Ireland , where the Catholic majority naturally saw James as their best hope for power ; the successful defence of Londonderry and the victory at the Boyne in 1690 became immovable parts of the Protestant tradition ; the Treaty of Limerick and the Protestant failure to honour the treaty 's promises of religious toleration became unforgettable parts of the Catholic view of the history of Ireland . |
| 4 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 5 | For all its humiliating decline , Khan still saw Delhi as a vibrant and sophisticated city , full of glamour and intrigue ; the beauty of its palaces and shrines , he thought , was rivalled only by the strangeness of the city 's society and its dazzling complement of poets , dancers and mystics . |
| 6 | They still see Scotland as north Britain , an appendage that can be guaranteed to play its part in the Labour unionists ' drama of periodically legitimising long periods of Tory rule by brief interregnums of Labour control . |
| 7 | Many people today still see Freud as some kind of sexual pervert , taking his theories to be rather far-fetched . |
| 8 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 9 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 10 | Surely after three years with the Glens you have realised that we supporters also see Linfield as a superior team with superior resources . |
| 11 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |
| 12 | Boss Ian Porterfield hinted he now sees Newton as a partner for the hapless Robert Fleck . |
| 13 | There were later rumours that the gesture , however sincere , cost Toshack the Liverpool management when Bob Paisley retired ; he had certainly seen Swansea as his apprenticeship . |
| 14 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 15 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |