Example sentences of "saw it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort .
2 Not surprisingly Teetotalism at first ran into opposition from some Nonconformists who saw it as a rival pseudo-religion .
3 By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession .
4 IN BRITAIN , the wrangle was blasted by critics who saw it as a possible blow to Manchester 's hopes of hosting the Olympics in the year 2000 .
5 Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands .
6 We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions .
7 Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government .
8 Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism .
9 John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry .
10 ‘ I actually saw it as a great challenge .
11 It is also striking how far he took issue with Western critics of Ceauşescu 's Romania who saw it as a police-state pure and simple .
12 The Legion was formed on 10 March 1831 by royal decree of Prince Louis-Philippe , who saw it as a good way of clearing Paris of undesirable elements and at the same time providing free labour to defend and build France 's new colonial empire .
13 Congress was founded with the blessing of the then viceroy , Lord Dufferin , an unpassionate liberal who saw it as a useful forum for articulate Indian opinion .
14 Erm but it w saw it as a useful experience in a clearance exercise , which
15 ‘ He heard there was someone senior in the neighbourhood and saw it as a golden opportunity to pass on the responsibility . ’
16 The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period .
17 Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD .
18 When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile .
19 He saw it as a tough hurdle , for Huddersfield were still going strong and his knowledge of their methods was matched by their familiarity with Arsenal 's .
20 Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism .
21 He saw it as a deliberate insult to the Church , a kind of Satanic Cross on the hill .
22 Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax .
23 It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters .
24 The Tories saw it as a constitutional disaster without parallel , the Whigs as a famous and hard-won victory for a bold and far-reaching measure against the reactionary defence of an out-dated and corrupt constitution .
25 Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain .
26 Some nationalists saw it as a cosmetic measure , to end the talks on a high note for Unionists .
27 He admired Kaas ' lack of fear , saw it as a formidable weapon in such a cool-thinking operative .
28 When Disney 's Euro park was first mooted I , too , saw it as a cultural Chernobyl and prayed that some mad French intellectual would blow it up .
29 A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery .
30 Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity .
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