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

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1 There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect .
2 Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief .
3 Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity .
4 Such powers , with a bad record on human rights , were quick to show resentment at what they saw as American meddling in their internal affairs .
5 Mr. Bailey 's own views are not stated , but as his appointment had included that of vaccinator , his reaction to this command was probably provoked by what he saw as lay interference in a professional matter .
6 It was equally predictable that these contacts were liveliest with the West Frankish church ; and that it was Charles the Bald who responded most strongly , both positively , to papal appeals for help , and also aggressively , to what he saw as papal interference in the West Frankish church 's political concordat with his own regime .
7 The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ .
8 Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important .
9 His autobiography makes it clear that Terence O'Neill had no sympathy with what he saw as parochial unionism .
10 The rest he saw as just bureaucracy .
11 With a substantial widening of the franchise , Peres hoped to head off what he saw as PLO-inspired recalcitrance and allow the accommodationist vote to prevail .
12 Then , as he frequently did , he took a moral line , based on what he saw as natural law , and said he would not blame , and might even assist , the victim 's relatives in such a case , should they wish to exact retribution and then hide .
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