Example sentences of "they [vb past] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main aim was not to obtain compensation — it was said that there was no prospect of recovering damages from Mr Anderson — but to rectify what they regarded as the injustice of his acquittal . |
| 2 | At the same time , even the most highly-educated ‘ modern ’ entrepreneurs were acutely resentful of what they regarded as the disdain for business prevalent among the professional intelligentsia and ‘ enlightened public opinion ’ . |
| 3 | It was from Egypt , too , that the Minoans imported a limited range of manufactured goods ; the fact that nearly all the imports of manufactured goods were Egyptian reflects the Minoans ' admiration for Egyptian culture : possibly it was the only culture they regarded as the equal of their own . |
| 4 | Rightly or wrongly , it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982 . |
| 5 | They expressed fears of leaving the embrace of what they regarded as the mother party . |
| 6 | They used as the base for their attack a campsite in the vicinity . |
| 7 | Two days later 10 opposition parties and groups issued a joint statement in which they denounced what they described as the over-representation of the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) on the commission . |
| 8 | These were primarily treaties between the Great Powers for the promotion of what they perceived as the benefit of the regional or international community . |
| 9 | For one thing , employers ' behaviour both in the USA and Sweden was profoundly influenced by what they perceived as the threat posed by unions to their ability to manage . |
| 10 | Although both candidates were Democrats , Jordan , a former chief of police , epitomized the opposition by white heterosexual conservatives towards what they perceived as the city 's minority-dominated , pro-homosexual culture as symbolized by Agnos , a former social worker . |
| 11 | The Bolsheviks were merciless in their attack on the government for frustrating the movement for self-determination , which they interpreted as the right to secede , to create a new State , and to do it through the direct action of the peoples concerned without awaiting the approval of the central Government . |
| 12 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 13 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 14 | Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms . |
| 15 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 16 | The overwhelming desire of the Chris Pattens and Sarah Hoggs and Michael Heseltines was to get away from what they saw as the incubus of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 17 | This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals . |
| 18 | They went to town on the story , piled up what they saw as the evidence against my father until everyone , it seemed , thought he was guilty . ’ |
| 19 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 20 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 21 | They were saddened by what they saw as the betrayal of the Labour Party by its leader Ramsay MacDonald , who had joined the National Government . |
| 22 | First , they attacked what they saw as the belles-lettrist and philological establishment within the discipline . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We 're concerned about what they represented as the quality of the hotels . |
| 25 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 26 | Other central features of their religious outlook were a deep loathing of Roman Catholicism and the papacy , which they viewed as the epitome of all evil ; a millenarian belief that the end of the world was imminent ; and a tendency to interpret contemporary experiences in the light of biblical history . |
| 27 | They struck as the man , 54 , went to a bank in Stoke Newington , north London . |