Example sentences of "sees [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Daniel sees them as ‘ gadflies who flourished while their princelings were in power ’ , and foresees a steep decline in their influence . |
| 2 | He sees them as an ‘ albums ’ band but would like them to have Top 10 hits in the singles charts . |
| 3 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 4 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 5 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 6 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 7 | But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse . |
| 8 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 9 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 10 | In his mind 's eye the epic narrator visualizes the personages and events that he is to describe , and sees them as something independent of and outside himself . |
| 11 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |
| 12 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 13 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
| 14 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 15 | They have not right to take and fund matters to the Higher Courts to review the decisions of the Government , the executive in other words , and they themselves have no idea how they 're meant to fulfil this role that the Government sees them as having . |
| 16 | He … he only sees me as a … a dear friend . |
| 17 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 18 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 19 | Eliot sees himself as an orthodox writer , trying to make his audience aware of the need to contribute to their own living tradition . |
| 20 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 21 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 22 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 23 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 24 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 25 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 26 | There is a certain latter-day Robin Hood quality about Philip Gould , who at 40 sees himself as a ‘ man with a mission ’ . |
| 27 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 28 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 29 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 30 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |