Example sentences of "see [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 2 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 3 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 4 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 5 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 6 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 7 | These moves will also mean that the probation service has to stop seeing itself as the exclusive provider of services and facilities : it is suggested that other voluntary or private sectors may make better provision . |
| 8 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 13 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 14 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 15 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 16 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 17 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 18 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 19 | I do n't see us as the best band in the world ; we 're just putting out records because the rest of the music scene is so crap at the moment . |
| 20 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 21 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 22 | Nehru saw himself as the central figure ; the veteran of the fight against colonialism and the apostle of non-alignment . |
| 23 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 24 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 25 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 26 | It means that Paul VI saw himself as the true heir of Pope John — but of a very different Pope John from the version usually presented to the public . |
| 27 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 28 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 29 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 30 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |