Example sentences of "see [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 2 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 3 | ‘ I am going to see them as Marie Wilson 's dad . |
| 4 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 5 | We can learn to see them as people loved by God , and for whom Christ died . |
| 6 | We fail to see them as people who have a voice , who have needs and feelings . |
| 7 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 9 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 10 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 11 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 12 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 13 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 14 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 15 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 16 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 17 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 18 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 19 | It reminds me of the words of Robbie Burns , oh would the Gods the gift to gi us , to see ourselves as others see us . |
| 20 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 21 | ‘ He seemed ’ , wrote his early biographer Anthony Sampson , ‘ to see himself as part of a fashionable play . ’ |
| 22 | They have seen them as evidence of the need for different kinds and structures of planning , rather than as evidence of the impossibility or undesirability of planning as such . |
| 23 | As I understood more about Lebanon I had felt sympathy for them , seen them as victims who had themselves experienced terrible deprivation . |
| 24 | Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing . |
| 25 | Another interpretation of the changes would see them as part of a longer-term shift towards new relationships between government and the wider political economy . |
| 26 | Managers do not really see them as part of the assets of the unit . |
| 27 | It 's perhaps of some interest to us that erm these to great -isms , liberalism and nationalism I think we can see them as products of the French revolution . |
| 28 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
| 29 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
| 30 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |