Example sentences of "see it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the fundamental as far as I see it of a pension fund . |
| 2 | I see it with a rather different gloss . |
| 3 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 4 | See it on a cinema screen — you 're unlikely to have the chance on TV . |
| 5 | Well I mean I 've known this bloke , if somebody 's gon na do something like that whether they see it on a film or not , I still go out and do it , they make it . |
| 6 | This means that although the State is an external , exploitative body it is not seen as such by the people who , on the contrary , see it as a kind of beneficent organism which ‘ gives ’ them the land on which they depend . |
| 7 | Far from regarding a tight budget as a restriction on their decorating , Tim and Patsy see it as a positive advantage . |
| 8 | His view of contemporary comedy as a whole is equally oblique : ‘ I see it as a very , very long trench with a worm and a piece of hot bacon nearby . ’ |
| 9 | You see it as a bogus science ? |
| 10 | Venezuela stands in sharp contrast because the banks see it as a better bet than Mexico . |
| 11 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 12 | We do n't see it as a bad quality in women to put themselves down , we see it as a good one . |
| 13 | They see it as a further confirmation of their own moral righteousness in remaining committed to believing in a God who their reason tells them can not exist . |
| 14 | I strain my ears to hear it , like distant music ; my eyes see it as a very bright light very far away . |
| 15 | Local music is an altogether healthier picture , according to the group , who see it as a friendly club where bands from all divisions of music can work together without competition . |
| 16 | Clearly they all function with the agreement of their management committees and funders , and within NACAB membership conditions , In fact NACAB has democratically voted its support for a broadening of roles , by reiterating in the new membership regulations the responsibility of the management committee for ensuring that bureau workers are trained in social policy work , and that they see it as a natural complement to bureau work when dealing with individual clients . |
| 17 | The sunlight is falling like a gentle rain and I see it as a silent , unpolluting fuel ; which when it reaches the ground bursts forth in leaves and flowers and is the strength which upholds the trees , and if it failed , all life would fail . |
| 18 | They find the courage to face their neglect and rejection , and see it as a blessing in disguise to give them , at last , the freedom from the constant humiliation which was apparent during their time together . |
| 19 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 20 | ‘ You have been sacrificed , martyred and cut off in mid-satisfaction , but see it as a noble act for the good of a world-renowned radio station that is admired as far away as Irkutsk , Tristan da Cunha and ( after the recent never-ending Arctic festival ) Greenland . |
| 21 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 22 | I myself have no inclinations towards mysticism whatsoever : I see it as a conscious attempt to transcend the exigencies of the material world , including poverty , in the interest or pursuit of some higher mode of consciousness . |
| 23 | Other people see it as a corruption of the French place name , Ronceval , where , it is believed , the spoons were first made . |
| 24 | Read it as an entertaining mock gothic tale , or see it as a celebration of Scottish pride and of feminism , and a condemnation of the return to Victorian values . |
| 25 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 26 | At one moment I see it as a drawing of a duck , at the next as that of a rabbit . |
| 27 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 28 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 29 | British Telecommunications Plc said yesterday it plans to start selling satellite dishes and receivers by Christmas , making the move since it is one of the few activities it is allowed to pursue in the entertainment arena : ‘ We see it as a very important part of our wish to be part of the converging area of telephony , entertainment and computers , ’ the company told Reuter ; the company will reportedly source the equipment from two unidentified UK companies , in a move that is a significant threat to Amstrad Plc , whose shares fell tuppence to 31p . |
| 30 | Thus in Norway , employers see it as a mechanism providing for industrial peace , whereas according to the CGT in France it is a form of class struggle ( Schregle , 1981 ) . |