Example sentences of "seeing it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 2 | They concur with the group in seeing it as a way of cutting down on bootleg tapes , though it will still reduce the impact of a future live album . |
| 3 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 4 | Despite the increased deficit , IMF officials holding talks in Warsaw with the Polish government expressed satisfaction with the vote by the Sejm , seeing it as a sign that the government could push its programme through parliament . |
| 5 | Mr Maconie should realise that the Roman Catholic hierarchy does fâ all to help AIDS victims , seeing it as a gift from God to rid the world of some of its scum , when it has the power to change attitudes for the better all over the world . |
| 6 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 7 | Under CONTEXT ( see the discussion of discourse situation , 8.1 ) we consider the external relations of a text or a part of a text , seeing it as a discourse presupposing a social relation between its participants ( author and reader ; character and character , etc ) , and a sharing by participants of knowledge and assumptions . |
| 8 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194â219 ) |
| 9 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 10 | Despite his lone pursuits of happiness , the greater impression is that they worked the Hollywood field together , for Burton 's material rewards , seeing it as a treasure trove best plundered before it disappeared . |