Example sentences of "saw the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice saw the musicians as she came to the end of the passage . |
| 2 | Some lesbian feminists saw the GLC as just another patriarchal institution whose Equal Opportunities policies would entrap women in another form of male domination . |
| 3 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 4 | For the fact that at the time Picasso saw the work as unfinished , allows us an insight into his aesthetic intentions and his technical procedure . |
| 5 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |
| 6 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 7 | Some saw the affair as yet another move in the on-going feud between the left of the ruling Spanish Socialist Party ( PSOE ) , headed by the party 's deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra , and those on the right who supported Solchaga 's policies of economic liberalization . |
| 8 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 9 | They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes . |
| 10 | Initially I saw the women as in two different groups , activists and non-activists . |
| 11 | The fiction/concession theory saw the company as entirely the creature of the state and therefore potentially accorded to the state the power to regulate and control the company as it saw fit . |
| 12 | She saw the problem as that of making the information implicit in a dictionary explicit , by finding taxonomies , set membership , recognising human nouns , etc . |
| 13 | I first saw the Baroness as I walked up the drive of Askham Grange prison . |
| 14 | Just as the young Richard — the name means Rule-Hard — saw the Man as Hero in struggle and song , so the child 's eye view saw the Woman as Noble , Wonderful and infinitely Capable . |
| 15 | Like Renner , he saw the system as driving towards increased international economic integration which ought to create an internationally united working class , yet seemed only to strengthen national separatism . |
| 16 | They saw the union as being primarily concerned with keeping up levels of men 's pay and hence as the sphere and responsibility of men . |
| 17 | According to former Mexican Communist Valentin Campa , the attitudes to the Russian revolution of intellectuals such as Ricardo Flores Magón , who was not a Marxist but initially saw the Bolsheviks as ‘ the true internationalists ’ , and leaders such as Emiliano Zapata , were influential in the decision to form a Communist party . |
| 18 | It put him — not for the first time — on the wrong side of the Football Association , which saw the clock as undermining the referee 's authority , and ordered its removal . |
| 19 | Some people in Würzburg saw the raid as revenge for the pogrom against the Jews in November 1938 , and ‘ intellectual circles ’ reportedly took the view that Germany ‘ should stop the war , if one was not in a position really to prevent attacks on towns and industrial centres ’ . |
| 20 | Some teachers were aware that they could now contribute to decision-making but still saw the head as deciding all the issues . |
| 21 | But Labour saw the Liberals as being a ‘ capitalist ’ party , and therefore hardly better than the Conservatives ; and there were , in addition , powerful social factors predisposing Labour to a dislike of the Liberals whom they regarded as haughty and patronising in manner . |
| 22 | One said : ‘ We always saw the marriage as being a great survivor despite Freddie 's unpredictable personality . ’ |
| 23 | As in the calming of the storm , Mark saw the sea as being an evil power over which Jesus had control . |
| 24 | Even with this fairly technical jurisdiction , some commentators saw the tribunals as providing the nucleus of a system of ‘ labour courts ’ ( Whitesides and Hawker , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Peaceful demonstrators were vulnerable if their espousal of an unpopular cause moved to violence a hostile crowd or those who saw the message as threatening or insulting . |
| 26 | The Aristotelian paradigm saw the universe as divided into two distinct realms , the incorruptible and unchanging super-lunar region and the corruptible and changing earthly region . |
| 27 | Although some commentators suggested that Lee 's offer amounted to a substantial concession , others saw the preconditions as too demanding to facilitate any real progress in bilateral relations . |
| 28 | John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … " |
| 29 | Indeed , it is notable that many contemporaries saw the Revolution as being mainly a Tory achievement . |
| 30 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |