Example sentences of "[adv] saw the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 2 | No , that was on B B C Two but I ha only saw the beginning of that and then I turned over to watch the one |
| 3 | These two major blows basically saw the end of his racing career , although he continued to compete on BMWs and Nortons again , before retiring in September 1961 following a crash in Sweden . |
| 4 | Unix System V Release 4.2 — now the official name for Destiny — the desktop version of Unix from Unix System Laboratories Inc — finally saw the light of day at a full-dress industry event in San Francisco last week . |
| 5 | Tonight saw the conjunction of two powerful planets , and already the air over the Magical Quarter was hazy with early spells . |
| 6 | The second half of the third millennium BC saw the introduction of the first metalworking into Britain . |
| 7 | Mr. Joseph Kasner , a director of the landlord , who later saw the interior of the premises , says that they were four-fifths empty , the goods only occupying about one-fifth of the premises . |
| 8 | Twenty years later saw the creation of provincial fraud squads . |
| 9 | After the war Truman very wisely saw the value of continuing this Anglo/American cooperation with the signing of the UK-USA Treaty in 1947 . |
| 10 | The year 1912 also saw the beginning of the Marconi campaign , in which he attacked a group of Liberal cabinet ministers , including the attorney-general , Sir Rufus Isaacs ( later first Marquess of Reading , q.v. ) , who had profited on the Stock Exchange through illegal inside knowledge . |
| 11 | June also saw the beginning of the second successive hot , dry summer , with consumers recognising the versatility of pork products for the barbeque and to serve with salads . |
| 12 | The year also saw the beginning of modularisation at the University and with this the initiation of procedures by the Enterprise Centre , in conjunction with the Quality Assurance Unit , to monitor the introduction and development of enterprise in all modules . |
| 13 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 14 | The Victorian period not only established the modern popular image of public houses , but also saw the involvement of specialists and well-known architects in their design . |
| 15 | I also saw the statue of Sir Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament and the monument to Edith Cavell ; I have a book about her life . |
| 16 | She also saw the statue of Molly Malone , minus wheelbarrow , which made her laugh . |
| 17 | The late 1970s also saw the initiation of the questioning of the value of educational growth . |
| 18 | 1773 also saw the composition of Mozart 's first original piano concerto , a medium he was to make uniquely his own . |
| 19 | These years also saw the rise of Trotskyism . |
| 20 | The 1970s and 1980s also saw the rise of institutional shareholders who often acted on similar information and hence took similar buy or sell decisions . |
| 21 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 22 | Of course , it is relevant that the period under discussion also saw the triumph of the art of aquatint reproduction and of watercolour illustration , two modes that conveyed the idea of the Picturesque to the common reader . |
| 23 | 1992 also saw the award of an important five year contract with BP for integrated design and engineering services on the Magnus , Thistle and Miller platforms . |
| 24 | Out of the Frying Pan , a modern tale based on the Aladdin story , also saw the return of Frank Finlay and included Alan Howard , learning the ropes of acting as an assistant stage manager before later acclaim as a Royal Shakespeare Company member . |
| 25 | The third and fourth centuries , however , also saw the waning of the Roman Empire , when the protection it offered to the population of border provinces began to weaken , giving rise to waves of ‘ barbarian ’ invasions from the east . |
| 26 | That year also saw the construction of the most striking addition to Ebley Mill , the chateau-inspired tower block , known as the New Mill and designed by G.F. Bodley . |
| 27 | The first third of the twentieth century also saw the development of anthropological fieldwork . |
| 28 | The May timetable also saw the reintroduction of a limited and experimental passenger service between Oxford and Bicester Town ( previously Bicester London Road before closure in January 1968 ) , sponsored by Oxford City and County Councils , Cherwell District and Bicester Town Councils as a possible partial solution to traffic congestion in Oxford . |
| 29 | The same reader also saw the conga-line of Repo Men that followed him , tittering into their hands and nudging one another . |
| 30 | 1801 also saw the publication of his classic book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . |