Example sentences of "saw it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly Teetotalism at first ran into opposition from some Nonconformists who saw it as a rival pseudo-religion . |
| 3 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 4 | IN BRITAIN , the wrangle was blasted by critics who saw it as a possible blow to Manchester 's hopes of hosting the Olympics in the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 6 | We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions . |
| 7 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 8 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 9 | ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge . |
| 10 | The Legion was formed on 10 March 1831 by royal decree of Prince Louis-Philippe , who saw it as a good way of clearing Paris of undesirable elements and at the same time providing free labour to defend and build France 's new colonial empire . |
| 11 | Erm but it w saw it as a useful experience in a clearance exercise , which |
| 12 | Congress was founded with the blessing of the then viceroy , Lord Dufferin , an unpassionate liberal who saw it as a useful forum for articulate Indian opinion . |
| 13 | ‘ He heard there was someone senior in the neighbourhood and saw it as a golden opportunity to pass on the responsibility . ’ |
| 14 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 15 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 16 | He saw it as a tough hurdle , for Huddersfield were still going strong and his knowledge of their methods was matched by their familiarity with Arsenal 's . |
| 17 | He saw it as a deliberate insult to the Church , a kind of Satanic Cross on the hill . |
| 18 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
| 19 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |
| 20 | The Tories saw it as a constitutional disaster without parallel , the Whigs as a famous and hard-won victory for a bold and far-reaching measure against the reactionary defence of an out-dated and corrupt constitution . |
| 21 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 22 | Some nationalists saw it as a cosmetic measure , to end the talks on a high note for Unionists . |
| 23 | He admired Kaas ' lack of fear , saw it as a formidable weapon in such a cool-thinking operative . |
| 24 | When Disney 's Euro park was first mooted I , too , saw it as a cultural Chernobyl and prayed that some mad French intellectual would blow it up . |
| 25 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 26 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 27 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 28 | Many saw it as an ideal opportunity for the Prince and Princess to put on a united front , quashing speculation over their marriage . |
| 29 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |