Example sentences of "see [noun sg] as a " 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 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 3 | We are encouraged to see murder as a particular act involving a very limited range of stereotypical actors , instruments , situations , and motives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's seen service as a transporter in every action the airforce has been involved in since 1967 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | The post-war changes were designed to encourage equality for all , but successive governments appear to have seen education as a vote winner and have made promises which they have failed to keep . |
| 12 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 13 | Other sociologists have seen stratification as a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 14 | Lou has never seen love as a sufficient motive for anyone doing anything , which , when it comes to it , I daresay is why I left . |
| 15 | Ever since their days as left-leaning indie rockers , The Shamen have always seen music as a medium for communicating ideas . |
| 16 | Organizations that adopt the marketing concept also tend to see marketing as a very diffuse activity , shared by many , and not just the preserve of a specialist group called Marketing & sales . |
| 17 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 18 | She sees racism as a sexual phenomenon in which black women and men are children in an oedipal situation with their white parents , and her romanticization of working-class and black sexuality echoes Freud 's own ideas about ‘ primitiveness ’ : ‘ Sexually … too , ghetto kids are freer ’ ( 1971 : 115 ) . |
| 19 | First , we will see prayer as a natural way of talking with God . |
| 20 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 21 | Peaker ( 1974 ) sees investment as a necessary , but by no means sufficient condition for economic growth . |
| 22 | The Bible sees crime as a moral act for which the criminal is responsible , which sickness is not . |
| 23 | Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ? |
| 24 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 25 | What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental . |
| 26 | Theodore Sarbin of the University of California , for instance , sees hypnosis as a special kind of role-taking behaviour . |
| 27 | Opposing that essentialist version of homosexuality is an analysis which , drawing above all on the work of Foucault , sees homosexuality as a social construction , culturally and historically specific , sensitive to cultural and historical change . |
| 28 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 29 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 30 | Her argument is that Irigaray , as a psychoanalyst , sees psychoanalysis as a process of change rather than as a scientific theory : Irigaray 's work suggests ways in which psychoanalysis could be seen as a model for feminists seeking fundamental social change , in particular by proposing an alternative model for the relation between the rational and the non-rational which would be more satisfactory than the dominant paradigm . |