Example sentences of "to [pron] [pers pn] saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 2 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 3 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 4 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 5 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 6 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 7 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |
| 8 | In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States . |
| 9 | The BIP refused to join the committee , and objected to what it saw as the more militant tactics advocated by the BNF . |
| 10 | Firstly , during the negotiations the purchaser will naturally be concerned to be reassured as to what it saw at the outset as being the merits of the proposed acquisition . |
| 11 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
| 12 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 13 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 14 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 15 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |