Example sentences of "see the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inclusion of the measure is bound to fuel the fears of critics who see the bill as paving the way for privatisation of the health service , particularly through the proposed opted-out , self-governing ‘ NHS trust ’ hospitals and other units . |
| 2 | Coordinators of the WCY , at the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) , see the year as ‘ an opportunity for a quantum leap in the development of a complete world communications network , which will leave no one isolated from his local , national or international community . ’ |
| 3 | They see the child as basically a , a little animal , a wild animal , who has to be tamed , and er , disciplined and controlled by er , various means , and er , this is the , I think the view of the child that was more popular in British education , at least traditional education , which erm , for the public schools of Eton , which in this country was based on er , on er brutality , I think there 's the only word you can call it . |
| 4 | They see the landscape as being formed by ‘ dreamings ’ , which came into the material world at so-called ‘ waterholes ’ , which may or may not correspond to an actual waterhole . |
| 5 | Far from being the ineluctable outcome of intensifying class struggle in Russia , they see the revolution as fortuitous , arising from the coincidence of catastrophic war , abysmal monarchist leadership and liberal ineptitude in a country which had only recently begun to move towards liberal democracy . |
| 6 | They see the terraces as potentially dangerous and exciting . |
| 7 | Some authorities believe that it is the arching of the back of the purring cat that increases this blood turbulence to create the purring sound , while others see the increase as being more to do with emotional changes affecting the animal 's blood flow . |
| 8 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The individualist interest is served by the assumption that people see the constraints as binding them and act accordingly . |
| 10 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 11 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 12 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , many people today see the miracles as events that make people believe . |
| 14 | Radical elite theorists see the state as controlled by social elites who remain quite apart from political — electoral struggles , who operate government in a non-accountable , illegitimate and frequently exploitive manner to suit their own interests . |
| 15 | Meet their household and see the Manor as it was in Tudor times with everyone in authentic Elizabethan costumes . |
| 16 | Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape . |
| 17 | She would explain the nature of her interest , so awakening in him a wish to know more about what goes on outside Masailand and also opening his eyes to the fact that the white folk see the Masai as childlike . |
| 18 | Teachers who see the scheme as useful in producing proposals for changes were again significantly positive in their attitudes whereas those not doing so were negative . |
| 19 | Basically conservatives see the past as normative and their view as to what women may aspire to is governed by that past . |
| 20 | By contrast , wherever managers and subordinates are in the same layer separated only by pay grade — subordinates see the boss as too close , breathing down their necks , and they identify their ‘ real ’ boss as the next manager at a genuinely higher level of cognitive and task complexity . |
| 21 | Anti-narcotics agents see the arrests as test cases in the government 's efforts to curb next year 's harvest , which provides Britain with 80 per cent of its heroin supply . |
| 22 | ‘ We see the team as offering a front door into a range of services . |
| 23 | YAM Chairman Ian Robinson addressed the delegates and gave a brief outline of the Museum 's growth and commented ‘ we see the future as very rosy ’ . |
| 24 | At worst they see the future as two motorway lanes blocked with slow lorries with just the outside lane for the car driver . |
| 25 | We see the project as providing a focus for the work of junior researchers in the University as well as for the research of existing faculty members . |
| 26 | But when she finally capitulates , consenting to call the sun the moon and see the world as her husband wills it , she seems not crushed but excited . |
| 27 | Young children see the world as being serviced by women . |
| 28 | Those who stress reversal see the process as one that has been led from the top , using the need to accommodate the reforms to Japan 's particular social system in order to legitimate the changes . |
| 29 | Rather , I see the process as continuing way into the future — a process in which Britain must play a leading and important part . |
| 30 | Pupils see the microcomputer as a ) a source of information ( as in databases ) b ) sources of reference ( as in datafiles ) c ) a learning and communicating medium |