Example sentences of "see [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The martyr 's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government , but against Satan . |
| 2 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 3 | The Glorious Revolution is best seen not as a victory for one party , but as a compromise . |
| 4 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 5 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 6 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 7 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |