Example sentences of "saw it as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He saw it as filled with lines of force , whose arrangements permitted or prohibited the passage of an electric current ; this was itself force rather than any material ‘ juice ’ .
2 He saw it as indicating the travel weariness of the great adventurer .
3 She had seen the initial stage of the assessment process as an opportunity to enhance her role in the decision-making but saw it as restricting her power .
4 He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds .
5 Perhaps so , but the great economist also saw it as confirming evidence of improving real wages .
6 We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century .
7 Relations of CAP leaders and regular local government officials were often difficult , and critics saw it as giving an open invitation to agitators .
8 Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] .
9 The measure was not the subject of a specific UN resolution , although its proponents saw it as coming within the scope of general principles of international humanitarian law , and as providing a safer environment for Western reconnaissance aircraft to monitor Iraqi compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 688 of April 1991 against " repression of the Iraqi civilian population " [ see p. 38127 ] .
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