Example sentences of "which saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on its fiscal 1993 figures , which saw the company soar through the $2,000m sales mark for the year ( see page five ) Dell Computer Corp said cash and investments totalled $95m at January 31 , down from $155m at the beginning of the fiscal year , but the company added a new $200m revolving line of credit with nine multinational banks ; it invested $47m in capital expenditures over the course of the year , primarily in telecommunications , facilities expansion and systems . |
| 2 | The period chosen was a critical one for the British economy , emerging from the difficulties of the post-War period and embarking on a major period of expansion which saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society . |
| 3 | The first finalist has emerged in the Haslemere Combination League , Admirals ‘ B ’ defeated Grange ‘ B ’ by a margin of 13 points ( plus handicap ) in a match which saw the home team 's men that little bit stronger than the visitors . |
| 4 | The unprecedented freedom of expression facilitated a ‘ semi-decadent ’ cultural revival which saw the flowering of avant-garde experiment in art , music , theatre and literature . |
| 5 | By contrast , the energetic and efficient Clinton campaign ended with a flourish which saw the candidate visit eight states ( seven of which he later won ) in the final 29 hours before polling . |
| 6 | Of 1992 , which saw the couple split as well as her topless pictures with friend Johnny Bryan , Fergie said : ‘ I ca n't go through a year like this ever again . |
| 7 | Britain , which saw the possibility of having to act in out-of-area conflicts and thus still needed an effective fighter aircraft , was left with the decision as to whether or not to proceed with the project unilaterally . |
| 8 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 9 | These writers were , the Woods claim , defending the declining way of life of the landed aristocracy , challenged by urban developments which saw the rise of traders , manufacturers , artisans and wage-labourers many of whom had migrated from rural areas where they had worked as slaves and peasants for the old nobility . |
| 10 | From the beginning the house and the novel are interconnected , for the eighteenth century , which saw the rise of the novel , was also the great age of the English house . |
| 11 | Hull 's powerful prop looks likely to be cited to the Rugby League for a tackle on Wires second-row forward Bob Jackson , which saw the Aussie skipper carried off with a nasty eye injury . |
| 12 | This was the phase which saw the development of the big modular schemes at City of London and Oxford Polytechnics . |
| 13 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 14 | But the disorders really began to escalate after the spring of 1715 , which saw the consolidation of the Whigs in power as a result of their success in the General Election of March , achieved with the full weight of royal patronage behind them . |
| 15 | A comparison of Sidonius and Avitus reveals something of the continuities and discontinuities of the late fifth and early sixth centuries , and thus of the period which saw the transformation of the barbarian settlements into fully fledged kingdoms . |
| 16 | It put him — not for the first time — on the wrong side of the Football Association , which saw the clock as undermining the referee 's authority , and ordered its removal . |
| 17 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 18 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 19 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 20 | This period , which saw the triumph of bronze , is also the first which interested Roman collectors . |
| 21 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was the transition to land that enabled the scorpions to survive beyond the Palaeozoic , which saw the end of the sea scorpions . |
| 23 | It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's meeting , which saw the group change its name from Ferranti International Signal to Ferranti International , also approved changes in its articles designed to prevent it breaching borrowing powers as a result of the decimation of its equity base by the £215million write-off . |
| 25 | This decade , which saw the arrival in London of Spencer Stuart , Boyden and Heidrick and Struggles , also witnessed the origins of the first home-grown headhunters . |
| 26 | Many of the animals in this exhibition were gathered by hunters from a different era ; one which saw the decline of rarer species shot almost to the point of extinction . |
| 27 | A raft of exceptional items also included an £18 million write-down on the investment in Power Corporation , £18 million of reconstruction and redundancy costs , which saw the workforce whittled down from 30,000 to about 25,000 , and £63 million of further provisions made on land and property assets . |
| 28 | After the Olympia meeting of 1934 , which saw the clash between the communists and the fascists , there was little interest in the movement and , as Stuart Rawnsley suggests , it was only a small hard-core of supporters who remained . |
| 29 | MacLeod has toughened up the side during a close season which saw the club turn full-time following a flirtation with relegation last year . |
| 30 | The outlook , particularly since the general election which saw the defeat of two of the Peace-Tax Campaign 's principal supporters in parliament — Mr A Lyon and Mr F Hooley — is not too encouraging . |