Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [pers pn] saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre Party was also committed to ending what it saw as the system of political patronage and was more sceptical than the other main parties about the possibility of Finland joining the European Communities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 4 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 5 | The intellectuals of the Enlightenment showed , in general , remarkably little interest in the structure of government provided it was pursuing what they saw as the correct policies , those directed towards greater tolerance and efficiency and the happiness and welfare of mankind as a whole . |
| 6 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 7 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |