Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 2 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 3 | The move is bad news for the future of the 88000 , which saw the deal as the guarantee of its future . |
| 4 | From then on she saw the union as an organisation which redressed the injustices of the employers . |
| 5 | She contrasted her experience of school physics with university physics , and she saw the distinction as a quantitative/qualitative one . |
| 6 | She saw the streak as a vast swinging bridge extending upward from the earth through afield of living fire . |
| 7 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 8 | The results reflected the domination of the congress by those who saw the BSP as a " modern left socialist party " . |
| 9 | The imagery of the ‘ black bomber , used in Handsworth was extended to the notion that there were groups of alienated and criminalized young blacks who saw the riots as a chance to engage in an ‘ orgy of looting ’ . |
| 10 | He regards Derrida as an ‘ artist-philosopher ’ , owing much to Nietzsche , who saw the world as a work of art . |
| 11 | Because of the in-house nature of separatism , we saw the conferences as opportunities to disseminate our beliefs to huge numbers of women . |
| 12 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 13 | They saw the bill as part of the renewed offensive against the poor , following in the wake of the Contagious Diseases Acts . |
| 14 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
| 15 | Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime . |
| 16 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 17 | They saw the cartel as a necessary evil to make the market less volatile and to restrain producers themselves from trying to corner the market in coffee futures . |
| 18 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 19 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 20 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 21 | He saw the trenches as an extreme social situation in which millions of men were involved in trying to kill each other while trying to save their own lives . |
| 22 | After World War One , as we 've been seeing , he was exploring the ego , and his writing about the ego , in particular , group psychology and Future of an Illusion , show quite clearly that he saw the ego as a pro-social fact in the personality . |
| 23 | He saw the omission as a symptom of a temporary aberration . |
| 24 | He saw the state as ; rising from an explicit or implicit contract among men to put themselves under ; single sovereign ( which could be a parliament rather than a king ) which would establish peace among them . |
| 25 | He saw the universe as a unified system whose development could be reconstructed by the evolutionist through the study of its modern products . |
| 26 | Lord Denning recognised that " in our constitutional theory Parliament is supreme but he saw the judges as the real " guardians of our constitution " and he felt that they ought to be able to pronounce on the validity of the conventions and " ought to have a power of judicial review of legislation similar to that in the United States : whereby the judges can set aside statutes which are contrary to our unwritten constitution — in that they are repugnant to reason or to fundamentals " . |
| 27 | The introduction of the ‘ mixed economy ’ did not imply any acceptance by Bukharin of the notion of ‘ market socialism ’ ; on the contrary , he saw the market as a means to achieving socialism within the framework of the ‘ mixed economy ’ in which the state and state-planning dominated . |
| 28 | He saw the primacy as an essential part of ‘ apostolic discipline ’ , that is to say , of the papal government of the Church . |
| 29 | He saw the theory as a way of uniting all sciences but the academic world did not readily accept the theory as presented at a philosophical seminar in Chicago in 1937 ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Angus Fleming , the aircraft 's designer , is well known for his company 's construction of glider trailers and he saw the Chevron as a way of selling more trailers . |