"envisages as" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when talking about potential future plans or ideas. Example: The company's CEO envisages expansion into international markets as a key strategy for growth.
The health authorities that organise medical care in London will shortly conclude a public consultation on a plan that envisages as many as 150 German-style polyclinics in the capital in ten years' time.
Tells about some of Dr. Gross's products, which he envisages as consumer items.
That resolve is likely to be tested again this week, however, with Chelsea expected to offer in the region of £30m for a player José Mourinho envisages as the long-term replacement for John Terry.
But isn't this an exact description of the kind of small-scale capitalist "innovation" that Hancock envisages as driving the core of Britain's much-hoped-for creative industries revolution; itself a coded form of cultural imperialism?
American officials said the group established a base in the port of Umm Qasr, just a 15-minute drive over the Kuwaiti border, essentially a toehold for what the Bush administration envisages as a postwar administration headed by another retired general, Jay Garner.
In any case, her supremacy is clinched by the tale of her and Ruby Wax being dragged around India by Goldie Hawn circa 1997 as they are pressured to come up with a script for a film Hawn envisages as being about a fiftysomething woman who – and these are Saunders' words, not Hawn's - "goes to India, looks gorgeous and finds herself".
This, after all, was envisaged as long ago as 1875.
Following the European Union model, continent-wide parliaments are envisaged, as well as a reformed general assembly of the United Nations.
Planned expansion envisaged as many as 700,000 Northern workers by 2012.
Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.
Other potential mechanisms could be envisaged as well.
