Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 2 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 3 | Dulles , whose experience in foreign policy stretched back to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 , saw communism as an evil system which should not just be " contained " but positively " rolled back " . |
| 4 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 5 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 6 | The moments they portray are the life of the next world , for the Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives along the banks of the Nile . |
| 7 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 8 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 9 | In 1955 he wrote to Philip Mairet , to whom he had dedicated Notes towards the Definition of Culture , stressing that he saw ritual as an essential element in life . |
| 10 | Durkheim saw crime as a normal phenomenon in society : ‘ it is a factor in public health and an integral part of all societies … crime , is , then , necessary ’ ( from The Rules of Sociological Method , first published in 1895 ) . |
| 11 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 12 | As ex-communists hung on in Serbia , many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of things brought it on , but I guess Elise Burgin 's mother being killed in a car accident definitely catapulted me further into that stage , ’ said Pam , who saw tennis in a different perspective after her life-long friend 's mother died in the spring of 1989 . |
| 14 | Most consumers had bought stereo equipment by then , and equipment manufacturers saw quadraphony as a golden opportunity to cash in on sales of new records , pickups , amplifiers , and loudspeakers . |
| 15 | Jardine saw opium as the only source of ready Chinese currency , with which to trade in silk , tea , and other items . |
| 16 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
| 17 | Lamarckism was part of a rival world view , which stressed the ability of living things to transcend material limitations and which saw Nature as a harmonious whole rather than a scene of constant struggle . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 20 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 21 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 22 | Although he saw selection as a plausible hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to investigate the question , he had major reservations about the mechanism and preferred to believe that evolution occurred through saltations or leaps produced by some mechanism internal to the organism . |
| 23 | Also on the eastern frontages Paull Battery which saw service in the Civil War when Charles I attempted to blockade Hull , the first city to turn against him . |
| 24 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 25 | He saw movement at the far side of the field , close by a dark-leafed wood . |
| 26 | Even during the Exclusion Crisis there were many conservative Whigs who saw Exclusion as the only way to preserve strong monarchy in England . |
| 27 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |
| 28 | Macmillan saw privatization as an ideological approach to the problems of industry motivated by a simple desire on the part of Government to make some quick money . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 30 | Haley cheerfully explained , as no successor could have dared after , say , 1965 , that he saw society as a cultural pyramid , slowly aspiring upwards . |