Example sentences of "see [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 4 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 7 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 8 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 9 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 10 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 11 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 12 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 13 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 14 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 15 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 16 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 17 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 18 | The emphasis , therefore , shifts away from the uneven development of class relations and towards elites within the state apparatus , seeing them as the key , relatively autonomous decision-makers . |
| 19 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 20 | However , apparently you have no trouble seeing me as a thief ! ’ |
| 21 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 22 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 23 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 24 | She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck . |
| 25 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 26 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 27 | Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front . |
| 28 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 29 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 30 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |