Example sentences of "it saw [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Reagan came to power with greater hostility for the Soviets than any of his predecessors , and he quickly reached an understanding with Israel concerning those it saw as the Soviet Union 's regional proxies , Syria and the PLO . |
| 2 | The government of the majority Russian- and Ukrainian-populated " Soviet Socialist Dnestr Republic " was unhappy at what it saw as the Moldovan government 's policy of drawing closer to Romania and imposing Romanian culture and language on the whole republic . |
| 3 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 4 | In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States . |
| 5 | The US administration , anxious not to be pushed into vetoing what it saw as an unacceptable draft resolution originally proposed by Cuba , Colombia , Malaysia and Yemen , had launched prolonged diplomatic efforts to secure this more acceptable formulation . |
| 6 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |