Example sentences of "saw it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 2 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 3 | Many also saw it as a means of informing the authorities of their grievances . |
| 4 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 5 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 6 | I think Malcolm saw it as a way of getting himself established , starting a shop and making a reputation . |
| 7 | In those days , Cadbury 's saw it as part of its social responsibility to provide training and education for the workers it recruited . |
| 8 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 9 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 10 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 11 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 12 | Most saw it as an evil , although the ways suggested to combat the condition varied greatly . |
| 13 | The media , once again , saw it as further indication of encroaching madness . |
| 14 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 15 | No firms mentioned reducing their dependence on skilled labour as a reason for introducing new technology — though a significant minority saw it as a way of reducing labour costs . |
| 16 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
| 17 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 18 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
| 19 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 20 | The Centre for Policy Studies was only one of a series of institutions which now began to churn out papers , briefings , and a stream of serious young advisers in dark suits who saw it as their role to steer the party away from the errors of its past ways . |
| 21 | Some saw it as the beginning of the end of Nazism , which had again almost ‘ run itself to death with victories ’ . |
| 22 | They saw it as a series of failures , lapses from the ideal procedures by which a community ought to make its political decisions . |
| 23 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 24 | Some , like P. T. Forsyth or John Hunter , referred to the preaching as the ‘ Sacrament of the Word ’ and saw it as ‘ the distinctly Protestant Sacrament ’ . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly Teetotalism at first ran into opposition from some Nonconformists who saw it as a rival pseudo-religion . |
| 26 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 27 | When Disney 's Euro park was first mooted I , too , saw it as a cultural Chernobyl and prayed that some mad French intellectual would blow it up . |
| 28 | Neil Gunn saw it as a manifestation of ‘ the only spirit which can truly build and enrich social life ’ . |
| 29 | They saw it as a betrayal of their promise that by making a full confession Blake would be more leniently treated and felt that such a heavy sentence would deter any future traitors from confessing . |
| 30 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |