Example sentences of "saw [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 2 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 3 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |
| 4 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 5 | He saw himself as a courtier only by profession and hated to find himself succumbing already to the sycophantic atmosphere of the Palace offices . |
| 6 | He saw himself as a great , strong animal who could always protect his girl . |
| 7 | Whereas in Northamptonshire the tutor-organiser saw himself as a professional liaising with other professionals in areas where voluntary participation was barely appropriate , his colleague in Essex was apparently expected to spend a lot of time in routine organising work which voluntary members could readily take over when she eventually resigned . |
| 8 | He saw himself as a good Art teacher : |
| 9 | Worse , although Thornton knew that Hayling saw himself as a potential chief executive , he demanded that the business side of the paper be immediately put under the direction of ‘ an upfront businessman with a solid track record ’ . |
| 10 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 11 | Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahm 's music , and saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school . |
| 12 | Hagen 's iconoclasm was for his own benefit ; he never saw himself as a social campaigner on behalf of his fellow professionals . |
| 13 | Nehru saw himself as the central figure ; the veteran of the fight against colonialism and the apostle of non-alignment . |
| 14 | He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action . |
| 15 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 16 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 17 | It means that Paul VI saw himself as the true heir of Pope John — but of a very different Pope John from the version usually presented to the public . |
| 18 | It was perhaps typical of du Cann , who saw himself as an archetypal operator , that he should try to do both simultaneously . |
| 19 | The CLB , founded by W. M. Gee , an ex-Volunteer officer and secretary of the Junior Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society , saw itself as an Anglican institution for the ‘ care and training of lads in Religion , Morals and Physique ’ during the important years prior to manhood . |
| 20 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 21 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 22 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
| 23 | Claire saw her as a red blur through the tears . |
| 24 | Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law . |
| 25 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 26 | Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle . |
| 27 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 28 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 29 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |