Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reciprocity measures , as originally drafted in 1988 , had aroused particularly strong protests from the USA and from Japan , which saw them as part of a protectionist " fortress Europe " policy designed to exclude non-EC institutions . |
| 2 | An early interpretation saw them as barracks for troops used by Swegen Forkbeard to conquer England , with each house containing a ship 's crew . |
| 3 | Although land-occupations and a rash of urban strikes were spontaneous and largely uncoordinated , rightists saw them as evidence of the revolution they had predicted would follow a Popular Front victory . |
| 4 | There was no ease in the relationship any more : he saw them as strangers . |
| 5 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 6 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 7 | She saw them as emanations of his own tormented , neurotic , anally fixated personality , and nothing to do with herself . |
| 8 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 9 | They saw them as contradictions , occasions for elaborated ironies , for indignation and anger . |
| 10 | Our notion of Indians has been conditioned by the frontier mentality that saw them as savages inhabiting the geographic void that civilisation would tame . |
| 11 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |
| 12 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 13 | In those days , Cadbury 's saw it as part of its social responsibility to provide training and education for the workers it recruited . |
| 14 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 15 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 16 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |
| 17 | He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action . |
| 18 | I saw it as Men must see it and not as an eagle does . ’ |
| 19 | But the EC President 's demand for solidarity angered Euro-sceptics , who saw it as Brussels trying to dictate British policy on a wide range of issues . |
| 20 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 21 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |