Example sentences of "saw them as " in BNC.

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1 We grew up viewing them with contempt , and saw them as preoccupied with money so they could ‘ better themselves ’ .
2 Sam saw them as proud , bold symbols of the wealth and success which Evelyn was shortly to share .
3 Marx saw them as promoting the bourgeois state , which was an advance on feudalism and which , in turn , would give rise to the proletarian state .
4 Michelle Phillips moved in ; according to Bruce Dern , Jack seemed to want to believe that they were the couple , made for each other ; he saw them as having it all , on his own terms .
5 Eyes , who saw everything around him as exciting and interesting , was the imaginative one ; No-Eyes , bored and truculent , saw the very same things but saw them as boring and limited .
6 Twenty years ago when both these causes were beginning to gain wide support , many people saw them as clashing .
7 The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) .
8 Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill .
9 Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view .
10 People saw them as two opposing dynasties , with their courtiers and generals and secret agents , and even jesters … ’
11 My cousins lived not far from us , on the same stretch of road , and we often saw them as we were all of similar age .
12 It was because he saw them as offering more regular and more worthwhile employment for children than could be found in the agricultural districts , with only seasonal and low-paid needs , that Defoe praised the woollen areas .
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