Example sentences of "see [noun] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 7 | ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Very young children understand how a desire can direct a person 's actions , but they seem to see desire as an inherent property of an object , rather than as one individual 's subjective evaluation of the object . |
| 10 | Merchant ( 1982 ) , for example , believes that from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , the scientific view of Nature began to change ; instead of seeing Nature as an organic and harmonious entity , it began to be seen as external and chaotic ; the role of science was to exploit it . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 13 | He sees discovery as an instantaneous revelation or sudden perception . |
| 14 | Ashton sees Noguchi as an ‘ authentic romantic ’ , uprooted and uncompromising . |
| 15 | Why do some women see marriage as an absolute priority from the start of a relationship , yet others would n't sashay down the aisle if their lives depended on it ? |
| 16 | How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ? |
| 17 | The Hay Fever Theory sees stress as an objective feature of situations . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 19 | THE PEACEMAKER : He sees gifts as an excellent way of atoning for sins , but can put himself at risk by overstating himself — giving an exquisite set of English porcelain when a book token would do . |
| 20 | Individuals may see alcohol as an acceptable way out of their problems . |
| 21 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 22 | Robert Fishko , director of Forum Gallery , sees Cologne as an opportunity to enlarge the hitherto limited market for his non-abstract American artists . |
| 23 | The new Science and Technology Minister sees information as an instrument of power and he believes that it should be freely available to all . |
| 24 | So , as contrasted with his September 1838 position , Darwin sees pangenesis as an evening up , on both sides , of all the powers of the sexual and asexual parts of any organism . |
| 25 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 26 | It is fair to say , however , that while feminist educationalists have , in recent years , become more aware of the limitations of the interventionist model , the state continues to see education as an arena where social change can be promoted . |
| 27 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 28 | The principles of human resource management ( seeing people as an asset ) and TQM ( stressing the importance of integrity in all relationships ) lead to a definition of leadership as a facilitating and empowering function . |
| 29 | A couple of the heads appeared to see devolution as an additional chore aimed simply at calculating how to allocate the money and making the books balance . |
| 30 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |