Example sentences of "saw it as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 2 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 3 | Many in France saw it as a route by which French prestige and French leadership within Europe could be restored . |
| 4 | Seurat , Dufy , Utrillo and Pissarro celebrated it in their paintings ; Apollinaire , in his poetry , saw it as a shepherdess guarding her flock — of bridges and Jean Cocteau praised it as " the Notre-Dame of the Left Bank " . |
| 5 | Critics of the whole APU testing programme , such as Holt ( 1981 ) saw it as a threat to teacher autonomy . |
| 6 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 7 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |
| 8 | I saw it as a kid |
| 9 | Miki saw it as a battleground : ‘ What gets to me is if there 's a woman in a band it 's quirky , it 's got a negative vibe to it . |
| 10 | They also saw it as a chance to reduce the cost of the basic services on which they rely — the telephone , gas , electricity and water . |
| 11 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 12 | I think Malcolm saw it as a way of getting himself established , starting a shop and making a reputation . |
| 13 | No firms mentioned reducing their dependence on skilled labour as a reason for introducing new technology — though a significant minority saw it as a way of reducing labour costs . |
| 14 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 15 | Some speculate that the CFTC saw it as a way of getting the attention of the Clinton administration . |
| 16 | Most either thought it did n't matter as long as they got relief for their tension and frustration and saw it as a way of keeping the peace , but some were trying through women 's groups or assertion therapy to express themselves more honestly . |
| 17 | They did not engage in an abstruse discussion of the technicalities of Trinitarianism but saw it as a paradigm of the religious experience of God . |
| 18 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 19 | They saw it as a betrayal of their promise that by making a full confession Blake would be more leniently treated and felt that such a heavy sentence would deter any future traitors from confessing . |
| 20 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 21 | Neil Gunn saw it as a manifestation of ‘ the only spirit which can truly build and enrich social life ’ . |
| 22 | Many also saw it as a means of informing the authorities of their grievances . |
| 23 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 24 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 25 | When Branson brought in his old friend John Varnom as deputy editor , Pearce Marchbank saw it as a challenge to his authority . |
| 26 | Well we certainly saw it as a disadvantage , he thought we 'd be er very well off with it . |
| 27 | Some saw it as a policy platform for the conclave that could not long be delayed . |
| 28 | Apollinaire had recently finished writing Le Bestiaire au Cortège d'Orphée and felt the name to be applicable to Delaunay 's work , partly because it was more lyrical and sensuous than the rather austere Cubism of the period , and also because he saw it as a form of ‘ peinture pure ’ which had analogies with music . |
| 29 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 30 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |