Example sentences of "see as " in BNC.

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1 Understood in this sense professionalization contests what ordinary policemen and women see as long-established , wellgrounded , practical experience .
2 Things like revenge , which you talk about as almost an Old Testament feeling , I see as completely now .
3 The rewards of happiness and contentment and security , I see as mostly drawn out of a routine of things .
4 But what we learn from interviews , now that Couples is enjoying a run of success that some see as likely to culminate in the Masters title , tells another tale entirely .
5 They are not paid to raise unnecessary dust in the formulation of a project ; they are paid to design a project to spend earmarked funds in a way that they see as ‘ best ’ .
6 On a daily basis these questions should lead you to keep a list of specific activities which you currently see as important to complete in some way .
7 Well , I figured that if I was going to have to stick to 55mph all the way to Boston and back , I might as well make the most of it and see as much of the countryside as possible .
8 Since then many more have been established , some created by the Government to oversee newly-privatised industries and others set up by private companies attracted by the idea of a ‘ righter of wrongs ’ whom the public see as independent and impartial .
9 However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale ; many published opinions throw it in as a sop , a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian ‘ fable ’ , in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings .
10 Everybody has to be able to write clearly , spell adequately , punctuate consistently , follow the rules of grammar , handle stylistic devices , and , importantly , be aware of the options offered within what people see as ‘ good written English ’ .
11 Even when feminist psychology deals with class differences , it often reproduces conventional psychology 's concentration on areas which dominant discourses of class see as important , like sexuality , and attitudes to success ( Rainwater 1972 , Weston and Mednick 1972 ) , and proves unable to see working-class subjects as psychologically or socially different from each other .
12 But these arguments rest on a belief in a general vocational potential for something like ‘ good mothering ’ , which they see as fundamentally a property of individuals .
13 Instead , they have concentrated on two main approaches to crime control that they see as appropriate and achievable : increasing the risks and decreasing the opportunities .
14 I 'll be working in my own way — the same sort of thing , but what I see as rather more — serious . "
15 The discourse analyst working in the real world has to be able to extract , see as relevant , just those properties of the features of context which are relevant to the particular communicative act which he is describing , and which contribute to the interpretation ( or intended meaning ) of the utterance .
16 Other authors have tried to use the theory of long waves in ways that escape from these characteristics , which they see as problematical .
17 I see as particularly critical :
18 Protest which Soviet historians disparage as ‘ spontaneous ’ and unreflecting , and which liberal historians see as mindless and destructive , libertarians regard as the very stuff of history .
19 Many functionalists maintain that the order and stability they see as essential for the maintenance of the social system are largely provided by value consensus .
20 Textile men see as much with their hands as with their eyes .
21 Comfort had been in Paris for a fortnight , officially to sort out details of an exhibition of her paintings , and she had taken the opportunity to replenish her depleted wardrobe and see as many of her old friends as she could find .
22 You see as great as her spirit is , she ca n't bear that .
23 Once the enhancement is one full-time teacher or more , then a whole range of managerial roles and strategies becomes available because it is possible to combine full-time class responsibility — which many heads see as vital to the integrity and continuity of children 's education — with substantial cross-school management , development and support .
24 Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest .
25 And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could .
26 The programme is intended to ensure that people can make profit out of public service rather than to achieve the goals that we see as important for ourselves .
27 Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart .
28 but see as little as we do :
29 Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly .
30 I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward .
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