Example sentences of "who saw [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of things brought it on , but I guess Elise Burgin 's mother being killed in a car accident definitely catapulted me further into that stage , ’ said Pam , who saw tennis in a different perspective after her life-long friend 's mother died in the spring of 1989 . |
| 3 | Charles Lyell was a student of William Buckland who taught that " Geology is the efficient auxiliary and handmaid of religion " and who saw evidence everywhere of " direct intervention by a divine creator " , of a " creative power transcending the operation of known laws of nature " . |
| 4 | This was difficult to understand for impassioned artists who saw Surrealism and Abstraction as struggling for the soul of modern art . |
| 5 | A sad event in 1926 was the death of Tommy Gould , the Caddie Master , thoughtfully recorded in the Standard ‘ as a man who saw life ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ ’ He was an extraordinarily uncomplicated man , ’ Powell adds , ‘ who saw life in very simple terms . ’ |
| 7 | Cooper , who saw striker John Gayle sent off after an off-the-ball clash with Daniel Delicari in the 70th minute , stormed : ‘ With a chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the competition , I thought the players would really have gone for it . |
| 8 | Konrad Adenauer , who saw rearmament as an indispensable part of his own Western-oriented policy of strength , quickly fell into line behind Eden , and the others followed shortly thereafter . |
| 9 | A seminal and key figure , at least in American education , has been Dewey , who was recommending in 1916 that schools should be organised as miniature democracies , and who saw education as a preparation for citizenship in a democratic society ( Dewey , 1916 ) . |
| 10 | First , we shall look at the view of Dr L , ( at the time of interview , the head of department at B ) , who saw physics as a discipline essentially concerned with fundamental rules and laws : |
| 11 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 12 | The situation was further complicated by those like Stubbes and Perkins who saw dress contusion as symptomatic of impending social collapse , and those like James I whose hatred of female cross-dressing introduced a misogynistic factor which antedated current social anxiety yet found a powerful focus in it . |
| 13 | They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers . |
| 14 | There were those like Hopkins who saw legislation as a growing sign of the improved moral climate in the country and its changing attitude towards women . |
| 15 | In Britain a similar tradition developed in the work of J. R. Firth , who saw language , not as an autonomous system , but as part of a culture , which is in turn responsive to the environment . |
| 16 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 17 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 18 | They were alerted by neighbours who saw smoke and flames coming from their outhouse . |
| 19 | Even during the Exclusion Crisis there were many conservative Whigs who saw Exclusion as the only way to preserve strong monarchy in England . |
| 20 | Of far greater significance for the inter-war period were those who saw fascism mainly as a positive force which would create a new society deriving directly from the war experience . |