Example sentences of "[noun pl] saw [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sympathizers saw in this the hand of providence , while enemies suspected ‘ dirty tricks ’ . |
| 2 | It was perhaps inevitable that one of the benefits that both the wives and husbands saw from this approach was a reduction in stock losses . |
| 3 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 4 | A series of meetings was held in March , April and May 1990 with radical Palestinian groupings in what many observers saw as preparatory steps towards their unbanning . |
| 5 | Most of what the first Europeans saw as original vegetation in north-eastern North America was manipulated regrowth . |
| 6 | Those who argued its virtues saw in this new kind of school an opportunity to blend the best in primary and secondary habits and , in particular , to extend for two extra years some of the freedom associated with good primary-school practice . |
| 7 | As the family kept vigil , the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother . |
| 8 | Baker tells the story partly to show the varying attitudes to war between the knightly and non-knightly classes , but it also shows how men saw in different languages a clear distinction between nations . |
| 9 | Many Bolsheviks saw in all this the realisation of their aims as communists , but the reality was far from what the founding fathers of Marxian socialism had envisaged as being communism or socialism . |
| 10 | Henry 's agents saw to that . |
| 11 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |