Example sentences of "he saw as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , he said , ‘ more Draconian than any deselection committee ’ , affecting people 's future in what he saw as a ‘ most sad process ’ . |
| 2 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 3 | All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target . |
| 4 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |
| 5 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 6 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 7 | The pines in the wood , where Uncle Hilbert 's hunt-terrier Blaze was the last creature laid to rest , he saw as a useful and lucrative crop . |
| 8 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
| 9 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 10 | Pilger was disgusted by what he saw as a load of hand-wringing , indecisive amateurs . |
| 11 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 12 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 13 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 14 | He became more concerned with specialization within a given environment , a process that he saw as a consequence of the struggle between the different inhabitants of that environment . |
| 15 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 16 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 17 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 18 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 19 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
| 20 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |
| 21 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 22 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 23 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 26 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 27 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 28 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 29 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 30 | 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 . |