Example sentences of "[Wh pn] saw in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of landlord-peasants and landless or part-tenant farmers increased rapidly , and the growth of landlordism was accelerated by the ingress of merchants , entrepreneurs and moneylenders who saw in land a profitable and respectable locus for investment . |
| 2 | Bismarck , who saw in Waldersee a serious rival , disliked this development , but was powerless to reverse it . |
| 3 | His curiosity about the American South equalled that of Mark Twain , who saw in Natchez both the ‘ drinking , carousing , fisticuffing … riff-raff of the river ’ and the agreeable life of the cotton-rich people who lived in Natchez-on-the-hill . |
| 4 | This rococo element , together with the poplar 's symbolic identity as the ‘ tree of liberty ’ , reinforced the view of one nationalistic critic who saw in Monet 's poplars ‘ all the grace , all the spirit , all the youth of our land ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Queenie ’ , as she was called in the family , was a doctor 's daughter who saw in Michael Joyce an eligible husband and the promise of a self-made man . |