Example sentences of "[adv] see it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 3 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 4 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 5 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 6 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 7 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 8 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 9 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 10 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 11 | Could just see it in a Trivial Pursuit question |
| 12 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 13 | But most just see it as a fun way of relieving stress . |
| 14 | We have always seen it as a milestone on the road to closer integration and closer unity . |
| 15 | Although the Club is a private one , we have always seen it as a service to the local community , particularly the younger members . |
| 16 | For adults it 's enjoyable to browse through , and kids will hopefully see it as a basis for future investigations into a wide range of subjects . |
| 17 | On the one hand , the force is immensely distrusted by large sections of the Catholic community who still see it as an ‘ armed wing of unionism ’ , propping up an illegitimate regime . |
| 18 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 19 | But when an idea or the picture is false , we are more conscious of it as a separate thing , for we can clearly see it as a preconception or a prejudice . |
| 20 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 21 | Many also saw it as a means of informing the authorities of their grievances . |
| 22 | They also saw it as a chance to reduce the cost of the basic services on which they rely — the telephone , gas , electricity and water . |
| 23 | ‘ I also saw it as an excuse to eat . ’ |
| 24 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 25 | Although at the local level we will be pursuing similar objectives , when it comes tot he wider national issues , it will be CPRW that speaks out for those who not only care about the Park , but also see it as a special part of a special country . |
| 26 | ‘ Ravenscraig has been described as one of the biggest environmental challenges in Europe but we also see it as an opportunity to establish Lanarkshire as a world leader in the field of environmental technology . |
| 27 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 28 | ( It is worth adding that multiculturalists are prone to another essentialism with regard to the state , often seeing it as a neutral and uncontradictory vehicle for educational and other reforms — see Troyna 's critique ( 1987b ) of the Swann Report . ) |
| 29 | Questions are raised but not answered and the next car commercial appears — but are you now seeing it through a different pair of glasses ? |
| 30 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |