Example sentences of "see [pron] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 2 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 3 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 4 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 5 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 6 | The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church . |
| 7 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |
| 8 | In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives . |
| 9 | Bankers welcomed the appointments , seeing them as positive moves which would revitalize the QMA 's management of the economy . |
| 10 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 11 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 12 | Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work . |
| 13 | We like to make sense of things , to analyse– to generalise , to see ourselves as rational problem solvers . |
| 14 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 15 | In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education . |
| 16 | Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios . |
| 17 | Earlier generations had already noticed the odd consequences which followed from Aristotle 's having seen the human condition as unquestionably that of an Athenian gentleman , and Kant 's having seen it as that of a Prussian bourgeois . |
| 18 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 19 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 20 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 21 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 22 | Non-believers will see them as misguided optimists at best and fools at worse . |
| 23 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 24 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 25 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 26 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
| 27 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 28 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |
| 29 | We do n't see ourselves as special people and we do n't see ourselves as having specific financial credentials , although some members of our group , not myself , may have those , but we try by listening to the people who 've elected us and listening to in general comments that are made from outside the council , which is a terribly closed body . |
| 30 | But unknown to me , Lesley had approached the Chairman of Governors to insist that she as senior management ( because Lesley sees herself as senior management ) should be all owed to interview staff . |