Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he saw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 8 | Irwin 's policy , then , was amity , meaning the perpetuation of government by those genetically equipped for it , in what he saw as the public interest , with public support . |
| 9 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 10 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 11 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 12 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 13 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 14 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 15 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 16 | In any case , the language coming from the Chairman 's office was usually that of pure political correctness , with many attacks on censorship and on what he saw as the benighted enemies of art . |
| 17 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 18 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 19 | When 1951 ended he could justifiably let rip in more frivolous fashion on ‘ Huntin' , Shootin' and Fishin' ’ decorations for the Chelsea Arts Ball at which he saw in the new year . |
| 20 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 21 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 22 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 23 | His policies were empirical , dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation . |
| 24 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 25 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 26 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |