Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 4 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is unwise to generalise and just see planners as an abstract class of bureaucrats for that is to compound their alleged weakness ourselves . |
| 6 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 7 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 8 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 9 | Ever since their days as left-leaning indie rockers , The Shamen have always seen music as a medium for communicating ideas . |
| 10 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They should be providing governors with regular information about their school , carefully explaining the LMS budget and how it compares with ‘ historic costs ’ , promoting financial understanding , raising awareness and allaying governors ' fears — many still see LMS as a daunting prospect . |
| 13 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 14 | For those critics who still see AI as a white Western organisation , such sights would have stunned their criticisms . |
| 15 | A self-confessed eternal optimist — ‘ I always see things as a winning situation ’ — she loves challenges and admits she has a low boredom threshold . |
| 16 | He also sees television as a means to another end . |
| 17 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 18 | It also saw service as a liaison aircraft and an aerobatic display and sporting type . |
| 19 | But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph . |
| 20 | However , Mrs Singh clearly saw Cedars as a temporary phase . |
| 21 | Many Christians also see life as an important preparation for death . |
| 22 | Surely after three years with the Glens you have realised that we supporters also see Linfield as a superior team with superior resources . |
| 23 | ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 26 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 27 | Boss Ian Porterfield hinted he now sees Newton as a partner for the hapless Robert Fleck . |
| 28 | → We do n't really see Guitarist as a poster magazine , although we appreciate the fact that you approve so highly of James Cumpsty 's photos . |
| 29 | Trade unionists increasingly saw underconsumption as the cause of stagnant trade , for , as the manifesto of the woollen textile workers stated on the eve of the 1925 textile lock-out : ‘ There is no greater fallacy today than to think we could get back to prosperity by reducing wages . ’ |
| 30 | Following what has become known as the " Halévy thesis " , historians have more readily seen Methodism as a force for stability against " the threat of revolution " than as one which worked for it . |