Example sentences of "[vb mod] see [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 2 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |
| 3 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 4 | Female fans might see it as a challenge . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ People might see it as a joke , but it 's really wearable , ’ says Udo . |
| 6 | In 1945 West European leaders were very reluctant to pursue co-operation because of fears that this could antagonise the Russians — who might see it as an alliance against them — or the Americans — who were opposed to spheres of influence and to closed trading blocs . |
| 7 | Some may see it as a chance for Mr Major to show how Britain can use the EC to promote its own policies from within . |
| 8 | ‘ Some men may see it as a challenge , ’ he said coldly . |
| 9 | In most cases the issue raises no problems , but estranged parents using the child to fight their bat ties or rebellious teenagers seeking recognition of their maturity and autonomy against over-protective or interventionist parents may see it as an important issue of principle . |
| 10 | We will take it steadily and I could see him as a Festival hope . |
| 11 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 12 | She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark . |
| 13 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |
| 14 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 15 | If we want to understand the functioning of a pay-roll system of a local authority we could see it as a system and the near environment will include the other departments of the local authority as well as the banks , building societies and other financial institutions . |
| 16 | ‘ If only I could see it as a tourist one day , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 17 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |
| 18 | I ca n't bear to think that you 'd see it as a betrayal . |
| 19 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 20 | I would see myself as a feminist and a socialist and I think socialism is the only form of just government a just way of running any sort of society , that can give people any sort of dignity . |
| 21 | And they would see themselves as the Babes in the Wood , or Cinderella , or young princes more lovely than the morning , turned adrift on the world to seek their fortunes , while vulgar and ugly cuckoos slept in their beds and drank the top of the milk . |
| 22 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you never would see me as a perfectly ordinary girl . |
| 24 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 25 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 26 | He would put them forward in a specially written book , bound in the finest calf , to some powerful patron who , in Cranston 's dreams , would see them as the solution to all of London 's problems . |
| 27 | I mean , Terry is n't mean or greedy or anything like that but he would see it as a sort of bonanza , a jackpot … |
| 28 | ‘ There is no suggestion we will waive the clause and if an exception was made in this case there might be other companies who have already sold who would see it as a special dispensation for Caldaire , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 29 | But I do n't think that he himself would see it as a failure at all . |
| 30 | ‘ I looked up to Valerie and Lesley when I was a kid and I hope today 's youngsters will see me as a role model . ’ |