Example sentences of "[verb] them as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise .
2 Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic .
3 Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers .
4 Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow .
5 She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us .
6 The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church .
7 The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched .
8 In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives .
9 Bankers welcomed the appointments , seeing them as positive moves which would revitalize the QMA 's management of the economy .
10 Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims .
11 Until more material of O. nodosa is available it would be best to treat them as distinct specimens .
12 Would the evening 's audience lob the balls back , or would they treat them as collectable souvenirs ?
13 The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders .
14 However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting .
15 These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " .
16 Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece .
17 The ignorant , baffled by the appearance of Picasso 's and Braque 's paintings , tended , indeed , to classify them as complete abstractions .
18 In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction .
19 European investors have traditionally taken this view of FRNs and have regarded them as close substitutes for money market securities .
20 Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues .
21 They need to be educated properly , and society desperately needs them as educated members .
22 The teacher 's function is to decide what these chains are to be and to take steps to establish them as permanent ways of responding .
23 Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return .
24 Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens .
25 This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans .
26 In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets .
27 His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense .
28 Other cars that try hard to embrace traditional concepts of luxury use leather and wood as add-on decoration ; the Bentley uses them as raw materials .
29 In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education .
30 Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios .
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