Example sentences of "[noun] saw the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among these was the USA , but their delegation saw the obvious sense in the proposal and while they were not authorised to approve it they would not oppose it but would abstain instead . |
| 2 | Theoretically faulty , because the individualized treatment model identified the cause of crime as a pathology within the individual , whereas the authors saw the true causes of crime as structural , resulting from the way in which society is organized . |
| 3 | Dot saw the curly mass of Gloria 's dark hair lying on the pillow of a similar but separate bed alongside . |
| 4 | She held Dot up to the mirror and Dot saw the greyish rivulets where tears had run down her cheeks and been smudged to grey by her hands . |
| 5 | Dot saw the little dog too , dancing . |
| 6 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 7 | ‘ It must not happen , ’ said Grainne more quietly , and several of her listeners saw the golden light beginning to glow in her eyes . |
| 8 | Durkheim saw the social order , and the moral obligations it placed on individuals , as a barrier to the realisation of their basic and instinctive drives . |
| 9 | It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press . |
| 10 | The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler . |
| 11 | The next chapter saw the Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , being questioned in parliament about the £2,000 he is alleged to have received . |
| 12 | I supposed , since to him Neil was only ‘ John Parsons ’ , it did not matter either way , and if Ewen saw the little pile of debris — tins and used paper plates and my thermos — that I had left outside the tent , it would surely go to persuade him that Neil was safely ensconced on the island . |
| 13 | Friday saw the latest addition to Darlington 's throbbing night life packed to the rafters . |
| 14 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 15 | Saturday saw the annual Sports Day : no records were broken , except perhaps in the case of the rainfall . |
| 16 | Beamish was slowly grasping his newfound trade and , with Pybus at his side , players and supporters saw the coming season as the dawning of a new age . |
| 17 | This implies that , like normal observers , C.C. saw the green shapes as the perceptual figures whether they appeared on the right or the left , implying that figure-ground segregation operated normally across the display ( his phenomenal descriptions of ‘ green shapes at either side ’ on debriefing are also consistent with this ) . |
| 18 | The fourth and fifth centuries saw the wholesale Romanization of Christianity and Christianization of Roman society . |
| 19 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the final triumph of scientific medicine under male control . |
| 20 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 21 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 22 | He said nothing but Maggie saw the black brows rise in mockery and she reassessed her conclusions . |
| 23 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 24 | Then Sharpe saw the far crops being trampled flat and he knew that each patch of collapsing rye betrayed the advance of a French column . |
| 25 | The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 . |
| 26 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 27 | The project 's got alpha ratings , but the council saw the industrial involvement and said ‘ Go to industry — we 're short of money ’ . |
| 28 | Two days later the Communists saw the new grouping as an " essentially disruptive organisation which can only hinder the development of unity between existing political parties and organisations against the Chamberlain Government " . |
| 29 | Some socialists but not on the whole the Fabians saw the continued decentralization of government to the municipalities as a desirable feature of future socialist society , providing a permanent check upon the growth or abuse of central authority . |
| 30 | The elections in the Ukraine saw the nationalist organization Rukh ( " The People 's Movement " ) take control of the city soviet in the capital , Kiev . |