Example sentences of "saw as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 2 | At the same time , however , there also began , notably in the US , that ‘ motorization ’ of the world which Schumpeter ( 1939 , p.167 ) saw as the stimulus for a new expansionist phase in the capitalist economy ; and more generally , the first indications of the emergence of a mass production/mass consumption society . |
| 3 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 4 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 5 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 6 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 7 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 8 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 9 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 10 | An Information Bureau , the Cominform , was established which Western observers saw as the re-creation of the old Communist International , designed to foster Marxist revolution . |
| 11 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 12 | The Centre Party was also committed to ending what it saw as the system of political patronage and was more sceptical than the other main parties about the possibility of Finland joining the European Communities . |
| 13 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 14 | Those who compete successfully under what they saw as the rules of the game — that is , to obtain O-level qualifications , find the rules have changed ; A levels had become the required entry into those jobs offering the greatest upward social mobility . |
| 15 | The overwhelming desire of the Chris Pattens and Sarah Hoggs and Michael Heseltines was to get away from what they saw as the incubus of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 17 | They were saddened by what they saw as the betrayal of the Labour Party by its leader Ramsay MacDonald , who had joined the National Government . |
| 18 | In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities . |
| 19 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 20 | The Treasury set out what it saw as the advantages in the following way : |
| 21 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 22 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 23 | Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms . |
| 24 | This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
| 27 | Another outlined what she saw as the consequences : |
| 28 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 29 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 30 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |