Example sentences of "see [noun prp] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 2 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 3 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 4 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 5 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 6 | Jean Baudrillard , one of the leading commentators on postmodernist culture , sees America as the society where postmodernism has most fully developed . |
| 7 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 8 | One must resist seeing Bakhtin as the US Cavalry , riding in to rescue a threatened humanism from howling poststructuralists . |
| 9 | The press began to see Morrissey as the spokesman for a new generation . |
| 10 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 11 | Eden , who in pre-war days had fought a losing battle in British politics against the appeasement of the dictators , saw Nasser as the reincarnation of Mussolini , if not of Hitler ; and in consequence , tried to use a sledge-hammer to crack a nut . |
| 12 | Mark saw Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 13 | It saw Jesus as the victim on the cross who in submitting to Satan became his victor . |
| 14 | Even Jean Monnet , the mover of much that was to occur in the future , saw Britain as the nucleus of a European Community . |
| 15 | Statements by the Iranian government made it clear that it saw ECO as the basis for a future Islamic common market which might ultimately embrace some 300 million people — a quarter of all Muslims — and rival the European Communities in importance . |
| 16 | For many years there were political overtones in this opposition , with Citrine seeing Randall as the representative of a capitalist rump in the industry which must be controlled . |
| 17 | They see Israel as the root cause of the problems of the whole region , and many believe that this is , in any case , a proxy war fought by the United States on behalf of Israel . |