Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The musicians involved in punk were also intensely wary of what they saw as the control exercised over popular music by the major record companies . |
| 3 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 4 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 5 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 6 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
| 7 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 8 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 9 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 10 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 13 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 14 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 15 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 16 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 17 | Despite what you saw at the club . |
| 18 | There were demonstrations in Moldavia ( renamed Moldova ) calling for greater control over local affairs , and in particular for official status for the Moldavian language ; there were counter-demonstrations by the republic 's non-Moldavian population , more than a third of the total , against what they saw as a form of reverse discrimination ( Russian , in the event , was retained as a means of inter-nationality communication ) . |
| 19 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 20 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 21 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 22 | Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics . |
| 23 | Those who compete successfully under what they saw as the rules of the game — that is , to obtain O-level qualifications , find the rules have changed ; A levels had become the required entry into those jobs offering the greatest upward social mobility . |
| 24 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 25 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 26 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 27 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 28 | By contrast with what it saw as the corrosive and unbelieving spirit of the age , that movement was deeply concerned to recover and reinstate the ancient doctrines of the faith , especially the great dogmas hammered out in the early centuries ; and with them to restore the sense of continuity and rich unbroken tradition which found its expression especially in ritual and liturgy . |
| 29 | They show in particular how accountants came to feel frustrated by their attempts to set standards within what they saw as an unhelpful legal environment . |
| 30 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |