Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] as the [noun] " 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 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 5 | Some saw it as the beginning of the end of Nazism , which had again almost ‘ run itself to death with victories ’ . |
| 6 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 12 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 13 | 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 . |