Example sentences of "[adj] saw the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This saw the common Interest as something other than the sum of , or compromise between , a diversity of group interests . |
| 2 | Some saw the previous day as the most moving , others thought the silence after shut-down back at base to be terminal . |
| 3 | Some saw the irrational spectre of money illusion lurking menacingly in the wings . |
| 4 | 1834 saw the legal end to this practice ( at least in theory ) when Edwin Chadwick drafted , and Parliament passed , the Poor Law Amendment Act . |
| 5 | 1842 saw the Poor Law Board 's Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population , and also the foundation of the magazine , The Builder , edited by George Godwin and devoted to housing and sanitary reform . |
| 6 | As a result , bonfire night 1991 saw the lowest accident figures for 20 years . |
| 7 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |
| 8 | A conference at Lancaster House in August 1979 saw the British government make concession after concession to the Black nationalists . |
| 9 | MONDAY September 7 saw the last flying Vulcan formatting with an RAF Hercules over Stamford , Lincs . |
| 10 | Armistice day 1921 saw the first poppy day appeal , sponsored by the British Legion . |
| 11 | ONLY five games attracted crowds bigger than 20,000 , the highest being at Old Trafford where 33,287 saw the goalless draw with QPR . |
| 12 | The year 1917 saw the Russian Revolution and they have just had another one . |
| 13 | The Agua Caliente Handicap at Tanforan , Mexico , in March 1932 saw the last racecourse appearance of a horse who was beyond dispute one of the greatest horses that ever raced — Phar Lap . |
| 14 | The establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 saw the final re-unification of a country that had been divided since the late 19th century , first by French colonialism , and subsequently by , inter alia , international politics . |
| 15 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 16 | However , many saw the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act as ending ‘ the ‘ Mother Country ’ hallucination' ( Kapo 1981 ) . |
| 17 | We have all seen , with a sense of sickening horror , the graphic television pictures of the shelling of Dubrovnik , and we all saw the appalling scene of devastation when Vukovar fell . |
| 18 | Cathy is the daughter of local Magistrate Harry Hall and the wedding party all saw the funny side of it . |
| 19 | You should of all saw the last Synod papers received this . |
| 20 | Lightning whip-cracked across the reception windows again — and in the brief instant that the windows were illuminated by the flash , they all saw the monstrous shape beyond . |
| 21 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 22 | In all the antics to which our honourable member would resort to secure the publicity and the popularity needed under the STV to get himself re-elected he would be contributing to the personalization and the trivialization of politics of which the eighties saw the deplorable example set in high places . |
| 23 | 1986 saw the sad end of the regular Fred Olsen Line cruises to Madeira and the Canary Islands . |
| 24 | On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place . |
| 25 | When animal welfare officers first saw the ten year old gelding Sunset Court he had been reduced to skinand bone . |
| 26 | The mid-Sixties saw the celebrated mini-skirt , and again share prices rose . |
| 27 | 1982 saw the first publication of the autumn statement , which can be taken to refer to both the publication and the Chancellor 's oral statement ( see Economic Progress Report 153 , HM Treasury , January 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Sept. 28 saw the simultaneous release of two of the most notorious prisoners , Robert McBride and Barend Strydom . |
| 29 | April 28 saw the spectacular arrival of Sainsbury 's the Magazine . |
| 30 | Incomes policy had been applied more rigorously in the state sector there too , and the winter of 1969–70 saw the novel spectacle of group after group of public sector workers rejecting settlements negotiated by their leaderships . |