Example sentences of "[pron] saw as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their evenings were frequently marred by rows , started by Constance in response to what she saw as slights on Nicky 's part . |
| 2 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 3 | Friends and colleagues say she was motivated by what she saw as cruelty in the meat trade . |
| 4 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces , chanting at them : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 5 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
| 6 | There was no evidence of a plot and liberals were disgusted by what they saw as panic action by Palmer . |
| 7 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 8 | Our Young Old Age they saw as Senility ; our Old Old Age was beyond the focus of their conventional wisdom . |
| 9 | To a greater extent than its predecessors , it attempted to intervene directly to undermine what it saw as union resistance to greater efficiency . |
| 10 | The government criticized what it saw as contradictions within the environmentalist stance . |
| 11 | The Chamber of Deputies was now beginning to use its power of the purse to scrutinise the foreign ministry and its doings and to attack what it saw as inefficiency and conservatism there . |
| 12 | He decided to try to shake Sien out of her black mood by acting angrily , responding abnormally to what he saw as abnormality . |
| 13 | His words to the tree seemed to be respectful and thoughtful , and he addressed whatever he saw as Sister . |
| 14 | He was sometimes irritated by what he saw as Blanche 's deductive ramblings , her obsession with the power of reason . |
| 15 | Now Brian Faulkner resigned from the cabinet over what he saw as O'Neill 's capitulation to British pressure . |
| 16 | He had recently had a starring part and a new girl-friend , both of which he saw as part of a new start in his life , taken away by Michael Banks . |
| 17 | His unforgiving attitude to what he saw as infidelity . |
| 18 | It is a shock , no doubt , to find so humanistic a writer denigrating Renaissance humanism , which he saw as philistine and obscurantist : the New Learning , he believed , created the New Ignorance . |
| 19 | that primitive peoples , and our ancestors , were like the neurotics , the ‘ abnormals ’ , he saw as patients , and unlike the ‘ normals ’ . |
| 20 | He was sacked from his ministerial post in June for criticizing what he saw as Franco 's lack of commitment to the Axis cause . |