Example sentences of "saw [pron] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1	When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists .
2	Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude .
3	Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together .
4	They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level .
5	He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it .
6	He never saw her as other men did as a woman .
7	They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work .
8	Asked whether they saw themselves as feminist film-makers , for example , the four ( predictably ) came up with four different answers ranging from an unequivocal ‘ yes ’ to an almost indignant ‘ no ’ .
9	who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies .
10	When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ .
11	They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) .

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