Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] as a " 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 She contrasted her experience of school physics with university physics , and she saw the distinction as a quantitative/qualitative one .
4 She saw the streak as a vast swinging bridge extending upward from the earth through afield of living fire .
5 He regards Derrida as an ‘ artist-philosopher ’ , owing much to Nietzsche , who saw the world as a work of art .
6 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 .
7 Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 He saw the omission as a symptom of a temporary aberration .
12 He saw the universe as a unified system whose development could be reconstructed by the evolutionist through the study of its modern products .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
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