Example sentences of "[noun] saw [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slavs were mainly adherents of the Orthodox Church , and many of the Slav clergy saw in the Russian Church an ally in the struggle against the Phanariot Greek clergy , backed by the sultan , who wished to remove Slav influences both from the liturgy and from the administration of the Church . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important evidence adduced for Maxse 's radical right outlook is the fact that he tended to lapse into what Richard Hofstadter saw as the chief characteristic of such politics , namely a ‘ paranoid style ’ . |
| 3 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
| 4 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 5 | ON JUNE 2nd the queen saw in the 40th anniversary of her coronation . |
| 6 | The first is that it turned out , political intentions notwithstanding , that the officers of the NCC saw in the National Curriculum a way to ensure that all pupils would share a common curriculum , a goal they already espoused , and that the DES found it unexceptionable to present the National Curriculum in this way . |
| 7 | This would be signified by the defeat of Saladin , whom Joachim saw as the current Antichrist . |
| 8 | Charles saw to the liturgical commemoration of his parents and grandparents , his wives and offspring , but not of any more distant relatives . |
| 9 | Clark 's burst saw off the Spanish zone and then a desperate English press reduced the margin to 11 points with seven minutes to go , but that was as close as England were to come . |
| 10 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 11 | But the " miracle " that Nithard saw in the safe delivery to Charles at Troyes of regalia from Aquitaine was in the eye of the beholder . |
| 12 | So now , more mildly , Frederica saw for the first time that the light was gold , that olives were black and warm , the olive trees were powdery-grey , that lavender was a purple haze . |