Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 2 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 3 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 4 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 5 | Farmers were slow to see management as an area where training could help but as more became aware of their own shortcomings there was an increase in requests for one-day courses . |
| 6 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 7 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |
| 8 | This model has influenced most subsequent studies , whether in the functionalist accounts of Talcott Parsons and his followers ( who see economic ‘ modernisation ’ as the agent of change ) or in the orthodox Marxist version ( which sees change as an effect of capitalism ) . |
| 9 | How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 11 | Robert Fishko , director of Forum Gallery , sees Cologne as an opportunity to enlarge the hitherto limited market for his non-abstract American artists . |
| 12 | One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state . |
| 13 | The new Science and Technology Minister sees information as an instrument of power and he believes that it should be freely available to all . |
| 14 | It is fair to say , however , that while feminist educationalists have , in recent years , become more aware of the limitations of the interventionist model , the state continues to see education as an arena where social change can be promoted . |
| 15 | The principles of human resource management ( seeing people as an asset ) and TQM ( stressing the importance of integrity in all relationships ) lead to a definition of leadership as a facilitating and empowering function . |
| 16 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |
| 17 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 18 | Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion ; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient . |
| 19 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 20 | Olive Edis saw portraiture as an art and worked on her belief that ‘ the photograph … should be the X-ray of the soul . |
| 21 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 22 | If , for example , a provision may be of doubtful import , such resort would be perfectly legitimate … ( p145 ) Because Chalmers saw codification as an improvement in the form of the law , resurrection of old authorities is easy . |
| 23 | Gradually , the Europeans came to see Persia as an ally against the Ottomans . |
| 24 | But it is a mistake to see Anselm as an instigator of this process . |
| 25 | It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development . |
| 26 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 27 | It seems that these authors see mind as an entity distinct from the processes that support it . |
| 28 | Yet other organizations see marketing as essentially a selling activity , and finally , there are those who see marketing as an activity which begins and ends with the customer . |
| 29 | ‘ We see art as an aspect of lifestyle ’ , explains Takashimiya vice president and gallery director Hiroak Yamamoto . |
| 30 | See CHAIN for an example . |