Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] a [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |
| 10 | Haley cheerfully explained , as no successor could have dared after , say , 1965 , that he saw society as a cultural pyramid , slowly aspiring upwards . |
| 11 | There were those like Hopkins who saw legislation as a growing sign of the improved moral climate in the country and its changing attitude towards women . |
| 12 | They saw nationalism as a bourgeois movement , but also as a danger to the working-class movement , which might become tainted by nationalist tendencies . |
| 13 | Like most of Europe 's Social Democrats at that time , the party saw nationalism as a declining issue , characteristic only of the economically more backward areas . |
| 14 | As a crude approximation , the 1930s saw unemployment as a dominant issue , while the 1950s and early 1960s saw the operation of the Keynesian consensus with full ( or some say over-full ) employment . |
| 15 | Gould saw potential of a different kind in Darwin 's collection . |
| 16 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 17 | To quote Holford in Design in town and village : Holford saw design as a social art , a view which encouraged the impression that the designer within the town planning profession , if not the profession as a whole , was really the grand integrator of the fashioning of the built environment . |
| 18 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 19 | However , Mrs Singh clearly saw Cedars as a temporary phase . |
| 20 | Abroad , the German princes who had reformed their churches along Lutheran lines saw Henry as a potential ally against their common enemy , the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , but demanded as a preliminary to a political alliance that he accept their Protestant statement of faith , the Augsburg Confession of 1530 . |
| 21 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |