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 | For a moment , Miranda saw herself as one of those lovely heroines who could never forget , who pined away beautifully on velvet chaise-longues . |
| 7 | She saw herself as such a jolly little girl . |
| 8 | He never saw her as other men did as a woman . |
| 9 | She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism . |
| 10 | They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work . |
| 11 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 12 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 13 | The media , once again , saw it as further indication of encroaching madness . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) . |
| 18 | Once I saw myself as one of a brilliant band of aid workers . |