Example sentences of "[noun] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Britain 's dependent peoples saw the presence of British troops close by , and not far away in the United Kingdom , as the assurance they needed of continuing British protection . |
| 2 | But many speakers saw the issue as a damaging diversion from Labour 's efforts to win the next election . |
| 3 | In ancient Greece , Winckelmann saw the embodiment of an ideal : an ideal of visual beauty and , more particularly , of a whole mode of life dominated by visual beauty . |
| 4 | For the fact that at the time Picasso saw the work as unfinished , allows us an insight into his aesthetic intentions and his technical procedure . |
| 5 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |
| 6 | Mansfield saw the difficulty in reconciling the two principles , but thought that certainty was the lesser of two evils . |
| 7 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 8 | Clearly many heads of department saw the appraisal as an opportunity to stress many of their needs in terms of resources and in many reports there was a plea for improved resources , accommodation , staffing or capitation . |
| 9 | It was something her mother had always declared to be a fact , and suddenly Lucy saw the truth of it . |
| 10 | He glanced quickly at Edward and Corbett saw the flicker of annoyance on the Prince 's face . |
| 11 | Crabb 's ex-wife saw the body at Bognor mortuary but was unable to confirm that it was that of her husband . |
| 12 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 13 | The February 1971 auction saw the majority of the Tora fleet sell for $2,000 to $5,000 , depending on type and aircraft time . |
| 14 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 15 | The people in the photograph in the I ‘ –3()s saw the start of another great change which is still happening today . |
| 16 | Keynes saw the contribution of government-provided services to economic growth as lying in their influence on consumption . |
| 17 | Like the BCG , McKinsey saw the inclusion in its matrix of the industry or product life-cycle concept as appropriate for the way SBUs were defined . |
| 18 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 19 | Most heads saw the quality of education as having risen in their schools due to devolution . |
| 20 | One diver saw the neck bend and the head dip into the water several times . |
| 21 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |
| 22 | Billy Arjan Singh saw the family once or twice during the next week and then Harriet and her cubs melted away into the jungle . |
| 23 | Manville saw the passenger jump out of the car and slam the door . |
| 24 | Ken saw the newcomer and refused to sit down . |
| 25 | The carrier saw the person he was going to carry . |
| 26 | • Spring saw the arrival of the A1GSM filter , courtesy Peter Oakes . |
| 27 | Tuesday saw the launch of TV-am 's Good morning Britain and its first shot at wildlife . |
| 28 | Pepita saw the foreman looking across at her . |
| 29 | The universal franchise and freedom for all political parties saw the development of mass support for socialist and communist parties that had previously been suppressed . |
| 30 | Mori figures suggest that , until the middle of the campaign , readers saw the Telegraph , the Times , the Mirror and even the Express as less biased in 1992 than in 1987 . |