Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | It is difficult to believe that the authors saw the implication of their findings for human medicine . |
| 4 | The people in the photograph in the I ‘ –3()s saw the start of another great change which is still happening today . |
| 5 | Most heads saw the quality of education as having risen in their schools due to devolution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 9 | Some schools saw the development of study skills in a similar fashion , perceiving skills as a prerequisite for satisfactory engagement with subject content or learning experiences . |
| 10 | Thus , some schools saw the refurbishment of the library as a prerequisite for the kinds of curriculum development to which their proposal for the project was firmly linked . |
| 11 | A year ago , when the Soviet retreat from Eastern Europe seemed almost guaranteed , American strategists saw the prospect of a series of global partnerships . |
| 12 | Lucenzo 's avid eyes saw the movement and glittered , but he nodded and went downstairs . |
| 13 | Without thinking she snapped off a shot towards him , and through the blur of sweat in her eyes saw the figure spin , and lurch . |
| 14 | George stopped and Libby crouched beside him , waiting until her eyes saw the figure by the tree . |
| 15 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the continuation of trends already clearly visible — a consolidation of the network of diplomatic links between the European states and a further growth and elaboration of foreign offices . |
| 16 | The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the arrival , of amongst others , the Irish , especially in the 1840s during the great famine ( Walvin , 1984 , pp. 48–60 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 120 — 50 ) and Eastern European Jews , fleeing from racist persecution in the period from 1880s to the First World War ( Walvin , 1984 , pp. 61–677 ) . |
| 17 | The deterioration of international relations between the USA and many Latin American countries saw the withdrawal of American aid which financed soil conservation efforts there . |
| 18 | Other countries saw the need for such policies years ago . |
| 19 | In a major study of poor families in the inner city , it was discovered that a large majority of parents saw the teacher as a person of authority whose action they were prepared to back up , especially if they saw it as strict . |
| 20 | The mid-1960s saw the development of models of temporary equilibrium , which took as their starting-point the assumption that the initial values of relative and absolute prices were arbitrarily given in the short run . |
| 21 | The mid-1960s saw the mill part of BP Chemicals , raw materials for the site being stored in a number of locations including old mills at Dudbridge and Eastington . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , these decades saw the development of new services associated with the emerging welfare state and the expansion of state pensions to cover almost the entire elderly population . |
| 23 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 24 | This year , the panel of judges saw the addition of prominent artist Ralph Steadman , who joined Norman Mathieson , Arthur Watson and Helen Wood . |
| 25 | The Conservatives saw the body of citizenry as a kind of secular Salvation Army marching to the tune ‘ Tamworth Manifesto ’ , arr . |
| 26 | The Conservatives saw the meeting as a chance to improve relations with a foreign power and have claimed that the talks may have paved the way for a future visit to Darlington by a South African trade delegation . |
| 27 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 28 | Harold was becoming more and more irritable with his wife 's bouncing in and out of bed and he declared that if the mice saw the kitten they might well decide to make a meal of it . |
| 29 | No-one was aware of his presence on board the aircraft until engineers saw the rush of air . |
| 30 | The loyalists saw the toleration of ‘ rebel ’ meetings as being the first signs of weakness which would only encourage the nationalists in their campaign to destroy Northern Ireland . |