Example sentences of "saw as the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 2 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 3 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 4 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 5 | Puritan polemicists frequently scoffed at what they saw as the uninformed nature of this mainstream spirituality . |
| 6 | However , they felt frustrated by teaching in a comprehensive school rather than a selective school and by what they saw as the poor quality of the pupils . |
| 7 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 8 | It shows what they saw as the moral careers of ‘ successful ’ and ‘ unsuccessful ’ immigrant and the spatial progress from back region to front regions which is bound up with these careers . |
| 9 | In any case , the language coming from the Chairman 's office was usually that of pure political correctness , with many attacks on censorship and on what he saw as the benighted enemies of art . |
| 10 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 11 | The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important evidence adduced for Maxse 's radical right outlook is the fact that he tended to lapse into what Richard Hofstadter saw as the chief characteristic of such politics , namely a ‘ paranoid style ’ . |
| 13 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 14 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 15 | Both Christabel Pankhurst and Swiney used medical authorities and statistics instrumentally to win specific arguments , while distancing themselves from what they saw as the corrupt power of male professionals . |
| 16 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 17 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 18 | Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics . |
| 19 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 20 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 21 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 22 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 23 | 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 . |