Example sentences of "[pron] saw as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 2 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 3 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 4 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 5 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 6 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 7 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 8 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 9 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 10 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 11 | Atlanticists attacked what they saw as a false parallelism in de Gaulle 's treatment of the two superpowers . |
| 12 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 13 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 14 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 16 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 17 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 18 | The US administration , anxious not to be pushed into vetoing what it saw as an unacceptable draft resolution originally proposed by Cuba , Colombia , Malaysia and Yemen , had launched prolonged diplomatic efforts to secure this more acceptable formulation . |
| 19 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |
| 20 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 21 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 22 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 23 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 24 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |