Example sentences of "see [noun] as [art] " 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 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 3 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 4 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 5 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 6 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 7 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
| 8 | We are encouraged to see murder as a particular act involving a very limited range of stereotypical actors , instruments , situations , and motives . |
| 9 | There is a mistaken tendency , nourished perhaps by too partial examples , to see perception as the passive reception of evidence from an external world from which we make inferences to its causes . |
| 10 | We must consider what leads young men — it is predominantly young men — to see crime as a better outlet for their abilities and energies than lawful activity . |
| 11 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 12 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 13 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This view might be too romantic for some who prefer to see sport as a destructive force , leaving black kids , their hopes shattered , with no qualifications , few prospects and little career orientation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thus in general it seems a mistake to see attitudinism as the enemy of reason in ethics . |
| 22 | To this extent it is not especially helpful to see pubs as a category of buildings , but rather to keep a clear distinction in mind between interior and exterior . |
| 23 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 26 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 27 | Now , we 've seen Jane as a passionate , spirited outspoken little girl have n't we ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's seen service as a transporter in every action the airforce has been involved in since 1967 . |
| 30 | 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 |