Example sentences of "[noun sg] see [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a natural predisposition to see events as the result of pro-active planning , but , as stressed by March and Olsen ( 1976 ) , intentions are often overwhelmed by exogenous factors and events or resisted through existing loyalties and perceived duties . |
| 2 | The falsificationist sees science as a set of hypotheses that are tentatively proposed with the aim of accurately describing or accounting for the behaviour of some aspect of the world or universe . |
| 3 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 4 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 5 | The Bible sees crime as a moral act for which the criminal is responsible , which sickness is not . |
| 6 | Wilden sees structuralism as a metaphor of the discourse of science which provides the structure which defines meaning : |
| 7 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 8 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 9 | The Hay Fever Theory sees stress as an objective feature of situations . |
| 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 | Thus in general it seems a mistake to see attitudinism as the enemy of reason in ethics . |
| 12 | But it is a mistake to see Anselm as an instigator of this process . |
| 13 | It is true that some opponents of the Government saw rearmament as the main issue — notably Churchill . |
| 14 | A date stone , 1784 , is on the adjoining bakehouse , which later in life saw service as a blacksmith 's shop . |
| 15 | In 1900 it denied that hysteria had ‘ anything to do with sexual passion , either with its excitement , suppression or gratification ’ , and in a discussion in 1914 a doctor saw hysteria as a product of inactivity in a section of the brain so that ‘ the less a hysterical patient likes any line of treatment , the more good it is likely to do if firmly applied . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing . ’ |
| 17 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 18 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 19 | The new Science and Technology Minister sees information as an instrument of power and he believes that it should be freely available to all . |
| 20 | According to one authority , ‘ Most close observers of the Washington scene and system saw Reagan as a media success who would be overwhelmed by the immense substantive and managerial demands of the presidency . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 23 | Like most of Europe 's Social Democrats at that time , the party saw nationalism as a declining issue , characteristic only of the economically more backward areas . |