Example sentences of "[noun sg] saw a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the November 1985 review saw a return to a policy of discriminating against child benefit . |
| 2 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 3 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 4 | The priest saw a boy of astonishing personal beauty , with a mop of silvery-blond curls , standing on the cart-tail , putting on a sleeveless coat of scarlet velvet . |
| 5 | The chemical industry saw a fall in the level of failures of 23 per cent ; textiles and clothing by 21 per cent ; and services by 9 per cent . |
| 6 | Thoreau in the swamp saw a form of this beauty , and it has an analogy in the himma of the Sufis . |
| 7 | This turned out to be the last time The Committee saw a race course until this season and On The Other Hand then lost his form after his Leopardstown Chase win . |
| 8 | In the next window Boy saw a wall of magazines and papers ( in eighteen different languages , including Turkish and black English ) , as carefully arranged as any display of flowers . |
| 9 | Glancing up the American boy saw a peasant pole-carrier , who had skipped across the road close in front of the Citron , grinning triumphantly from a roadside ditch . |
| 10 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 11 | The return of peace saw a redirection of Thornton 's interests towards the recently opened markets in the East Indies . |
| 12 | A WOMAN walking her dog along Otterspool Promenade saw a body floating past , a Liverpool inquest heard . |
| 13 | Shedding more light on Sun 's desire to make the deal , Ybarra claims that ‘ when Adobe gave Display Postscript to the MIT X Consortium Sun saw a way out of NeWS . ’ |
| 14 | Patients on the diet saw a reduction or end to seizures , where drugs had failed . |
| 15 | The two years before the war saw a return of prosperity , yet in the year before July 1914 over 23 per cent of insured men claimed benefit . |
| 16 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 17 | Next day we passed Beachy Head and the Isle of Wight and in the evening saw a windjammer . |
| 18 | ‘ The take-up of education and training courses by adults in the Ballybeen area is very low , and the Training and Education Working Group saw a need to uncover the reasons behind this , ’ said Gillian Spence , OBAT marketing co-ordinator . |
| 19 | After this Tindle saw a lot of Minton , either at Hamilton Terrace or Portobello Road where Minton did a drawing of the younger man in April 1952 , afterwards painting a half-length portrait of Tindle which now hangs in Pallant House , Chichester . |
| 20 | The sterling crisis saw a Government ‘ gripped by indecision , paralysed by fear and a Prime Minister plodding to disaster ’ . |
| 21 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 22 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 23 | The Wise 's period saw a number of dramatic changes ; Days Mill was enlarged and updated , becoming one of the few in the Nailsworth area to boast the new power-looms . |
| 24 | If anything , this period saw a stepping-up in the pace of his activity . |
| 25 | This period saw a levelling-out of both the absolute fail in rural population and the decline in the proportion of total population living in rural areas . |
| 26 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 27 | The major saw a coldness in the old man 's face . |
| 28 | Events in the race itself summon up less pious images , for this running of the world 's greatest Classic saw a brawling match up the straight and a sensational disqualification which to many smelled of more than one personal vendetta . |
| 29 | Moving along the landing to join her , Ellie too peered out , and to her astonishment saw a crowd of Japanese tourists , cameras at the ready , wandering down the path . |
| 30 | It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape . |