Example sentences of "saw [pron] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 3 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 4 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 5 | Mandeville , who saw himself as the King 's own commissioner and therefore self-appointed leader , shouted orders ; the great gates swung open , and he led us out . |
| 6 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 7 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 8 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 9 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 10 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 11 | Emily saw herself as the Elephant 's Child in the Just So Stories , drawn by her ‘ satiable curiosity to partake of all new experience . |
| 12 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 13 | Some saw it as the beginning of the end of Nazism , which had again almost ‘ run itself to death with victories ’ . |
| 14 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 15 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 16 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 17 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 18 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 19 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 20 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 21 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
| 22 | That is , it originally comprised the band of Dionysus-worshippers who , in their ecstatic state , saw themselves as the god 's goatlike attendants , fictitious nature spirits in a fictitious natural state . |
| 23 | They shared the community 's commitment to education and saw themselves as the vanguard of it . |
| 24 | They were both arrogant , both lechers , both saw themselves as the answer to all the problems on earth . |
| 25 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |