Example sentences of "saw [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You said you never saw action in the last war ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | As ex-communists hung on in Serbia , many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jardine saw opium as the only source of ready Chinese currency , with which to trade in silk , tea , and other items . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 16 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He saw movement at the far side of the field , close by a dark-leafed wood . |
| 20 | Even during the Exclusion Crisis there were many conservative Whigs who saw Exclusion as the only way to preserve strong monarchy in England . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Haley cheerfully explained , as no successor could have dared after , say , 1965 , that he saw society as a cultural pyramid , slowly aspiring upwards . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of the 45 women questioned in the survey , 9 thought sex a necessity for men ; 13 thought it a necessity for men and women ; 24 thought it a pleasure for both sexes ; 1 thought it an exclusive pleasure for men ; while 30 saw reproduction as the primary aim . |
| 25 | They saw nationalism as a bourgeois movement , but also as a danger to the working-class movement , which might become tainted by nationalist tendencies . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During eight American tours , two years in South America , and in South Africa , Australasia , India , and the Far East , thousands saw ballet for the first time . |
| 29 | Gould saw potential of a different kind in Darwin 's collection . |
| 30 | Konrad Adenauer , who saw rearmament as an indispensable part of his own Western-oriented policy of strength , quickly fell into line behind Eden , and the others followed shortly thereafter . |