Example sentences of "to see [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 2 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 3 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 4 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 6 | Farmers were slow to see management as an area where training could help but as more became aware of their own shortcomings there was an increase in requests for one-day courses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Classical theories of management have tended to see leadership as a sub-set or function of ‘ management ’ as an entity . |
| 9 | It is fair to say , however , that while feminist educationalists have , in recent years , become more aware of the limitations of the interventionist model , the state continues to see education as an arena where social change can be promoted . |
| 10 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 11 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 12 | Like psychologists , they start to see theory as a tool , and to adopt male-identified criteria of its effectiveness — a frontier spirit of quest and progress , for instance : |
| 13 | Some biologists go so far as to see DNA as a device used by organisms to reproduce themselves , just as an eye is a device used by organisms to see ! |
| 14 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |
| 15 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 16 | There is a need for older people to begin to put their lives in order , to review and be helped to see life as a whole , that they have the same ‘ self over time ’ ( Bakur-Weiner and Taggart White , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | It is easy to see beauty in a garden but how can it be seen in our fellow-men ? |
| 18 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 19 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 20 | But it is a mistake to see Anselm as an instigator of this process . |
| 21 | It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development . |
| 22 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 23 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |