Example sentences of "saw [prep] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As we saw in Part II , this has not been the case with child language , where both comprehension and production have been extensively studied , with comparisons being made between the child 's spontaneous use and understanding of particular linguistic forms .
2 As we saw in Part I , the opposite has occurred .
3 The main rhythm part of this example is very similar to the walking bass idea that we saw in fig 2 of last month 's article .
4 Gassendi begins by addressing a question first raised by the Greek sceptics , as we saw in Chapter 1 .
5 Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume .
6 Led by Robert E. Park , this group of researchers , as we saw in chapter 1 , devoted their research efforts to detailed studies of their own city .
7 We saw in Chapter 1 that there was no logical reason for classical criminology 's omission of individual , social and economic factors .
8 The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) .
9 We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century .
10 As we saw in Chapter 1 , there are unresolved conflicts between Beccaria 's fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings , the social contract and the functions of punishment , on the one hand , and the particular mode of control that he derives from them , on the other .
11 They are part of the conception of human rationality which , as we saw in Chapter 1 , is one of the starting assumptions of classical criminology .
12 As we saw in Chapter 1 , later Marxist explanations ( e.g. Apple 1982 ) move away from a deterministic model towards a looser one , which emphasizes hegemony and cultural resistance .
13 As we saw in Chapter 1 , the proportion of female students obtaining first-class honours degrees is smaller than that of male students doing so ; Kelsall el al.
14 This , as we saw in Chapter 1 , is the argument for a professional mode of accountability .
15 As we saw in Chapter 1 , unexpected chord sequences , irregular phrase-lengths , unschematic structural relationships have all been introduced .
16 As we saw in Chapter 1 ( especially Table 1.1 ) , the UK has more prisoners proportionate to its population than any other country in Western Europe .
17 As we saw in Chapter 1 , it is possible to distinguish two categories of temporary worker supplied via an intermediary — " agency workers " and " employees of works contractors " .
18 We saw in Chapter 1 that it is possible to link videocassette and videodisc machines to computers .
19 As we saw in Chapter 1 , it was believed in the early 1980s that much primary classroom practice in Leeds was outdated , uninspiring or downright bad ; that heads bore much of the responsibility for this state of affairs ; and , therefore , that the same heads could not be expected to put matters right .
20 We saw in chapter 1 how single projects should be evaluated using the adjusted present value ( AP ) method when sources of finance are linked with specific projects .
21 In any case , as we saw in chapter 1 , considerable judgement is involved in assessing sub-group betas even where a more conventional statistical approach is employed .
22 As we saw in chapter 1 ‘ history ’ is largely an ideological construct .
23 The second , as we saw in Chapter 1 , refers to people 's understanding of the world ; this understanding leading to social action and communication .
24 And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death .
25 In the days immediately following the surrender of these formations , the question of any repatriation had been considered , as we saw in Chapter Five , only in the broadest terms .
26 As we saw in Chapter Five , even in the reign of Nicholas contradictory principles had informed the autocracy 's attitude towards administration .
27 But , as we saw in Chapter 5 , genetic evolution too may proceed as a series of brief spurts between stable plateaux .
28 As we saw in Chapter 5 , your freedom to move elsewhere may be limited in a number of ways .
29 Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 .
30 Animals obey orders , the guard-dog does its duty , but as we saw in Chapter 5 , such attributions involve a language-game only reminiscent of the human paradigm .
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