Example sentences of "as [pron] saw [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 2 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 3 | The difficulty arises , as we saw with professional groupings , of sub-groups existing within an organisation that do not all share the same goals or values . |
| 4 | As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities . |
| 5 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 6 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 7 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 8 | As we saw in earlier chapters , CDs are now issued by a wide variety of banks and since 1983 by building societies . |
| 9 | For the Holy Spirit understands not only the mind of the Lord , as we saw in I Corinthians 2 , but the mind of struggling Christians . |
| 10 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 11 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |