Example sentences of "see [noun sg] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 2 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 3 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 8 | Following what has become known as the " Halévy thesis " , historians have more readily seen Methodism as a force for stability against " the threat of revolution " than as one which worked for it . |
| 9 | It 's seen service as a transporter in every action the airforce has been involved in since 1967 . |
| 10 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 11 | The post-war changes were designed to encourage equality for all , but successive governments appear to have seen education as a vote winner and have made promises which they have failed to keep . |
| 12 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 13 | Ever since their days as left-leaning indie rockers , The Shamen have always seen music as a medium for communicating ideas . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ? |
| 18 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 19 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 20 | Her argument is that Irigaray , as a psychoanalyst , sees psychoanalysis as a process of change rather than as a scientific theory : Irigaray 's work suggests ways in which psychoanalysis could be seen as a model for feminists seeking fundamental social change , in particular by proposing an alternative model for the relation between the rational and the non-rational which would be more satisfactory than the dominant paradigm . |
| 21 | See the very full treatment by Mark McGaw in the article cited in Further Reading , where he sees adjudication as a species of expert determination . |
| 22 | Wilden sees structuralism as a metaphor of the discourse of science which provides the structure which defines meaning : |
| 23 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |
| 24 | Morrissey sees video as a dilution of lyrical emotion and a distraction from the lack of such within the song . |
| 25 | How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ? |
| 26 | He also sees television as a means to another end . |
| 27 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 29 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 30 | But , when I was asked to go on a demonstration years ago , I did n't because I just do n't see gender as a problem . |