Example sentences of "[noun] saw [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced quickly at Edward and Corbett saw the flicker of annoyance on the Prince 's face . |
| 2 | Most heads saw the quality of education as having risen in their schools due to devolution . |
| 3 | Some schools saw the development of study skills in a similar fashion , perceiving skills as a prerequisite for satisfactory engagement with subject content or learning experiences . |
| 4 | Because Marx and Engels saw the reanalysis of history and anthropology as and essential part of their political activity , they gave ever-growing importance to the study and understanding of pre-capitalist societies . |
| 5 | The subsequent decades saw a growth of internationalization and multilateralism within this system until the crossroads of the 1970s and 1980s where the United States ' hegemony over the international system was interrupted . |
| 6 | An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 . |
| 7 | The Conservatives saw the body of citizenry as a kind of secular Salvation Army marching to the tune ‘ Tamworth Manifesto ’ , arr . |
| 8 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 9 | Since 1981 , when the IBM PC fist saw the light of day , its users have always had DOS , in one flavour or another . |
| 10 | Like many other tourist attractions , the Talyllyn saw a drop in traffic during the difficult 1992 season ; but the railway is working hard to meet the challenge . |
| 11 | The young hedgehog saw the mountain of food in the dish , and saw the boy place the dish before the dog . |
| 12 | Rincewind saw the gleam of gold and bronze . |
| 13 | No-one was aware of his presence on board the aircraft until engineers saw the rush of air . |
| 14 | Just 102 years after Cesare Beccaria 's Dei Delitti e delle Pene saw the light of day there came the publication of another work by an Italian called Cesare , equally seminal and revolutionary but in most respects diametrically opposed to Beccaria 's way of thinking . |
| 15 | Tolkien saw the problem of evil in books as in realities , and he told his story at least in part to dramatise that problem ; he did not however claim to know the answer to it . |
| 16 | Foreign correspondents who visited polling stations in Havana saw a number of ballot papers marked ‘ No ’ , spoiled in other ways or left blank , although these were not a majority . |
| 17 | When enthusiastic repeat orders for such an admirable product began to roll in , shrewd manufacturers along the river Tweed saw the advantage of association with the river name and set about exploiting it . |
| 18 | The two years before the war saw a return of prosperity , yet in the year before July 1914 over 23 per cent of insured men claimed benefit . |
| 19 | The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again . |
| 20 | But North Yorkshire saw an increase in unemployment . |
| 21 | It is significant that this same era saw the rise to prominence and widespread influence of several movements within the churches which strove to integrate warm personal commitment with the reaffirmation of the broad pattern of orthodox belief . |
| 22 | The last years of Queen Victoria 's reign and the beginning of the Edwardian era saw the rise to fame and prosperity of the great London hotels we know to-day ; the Savoy , the Ritz , the Carlton , the Berkeley , Claridges ( even then known as " the home of kings " ) , the Piccadilly , the Hyde Park and — the only one which has since disappeared — the Cecil . |
| 23 | In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity ; Le Corbusier had novel ideas on the construction of cities and from 1922 onwards in presentations , conferences and publications he attracted a world-wide following ; and in Germany the social housing programme of the Weimar Bauhaus , directed by Gropius , was architecturally distinctive , and in Frankfurt on Main the housing estates of Ernst May attracted great interest . |
| 24 | These years saw the growth of tension in Europe , with the rise of an aggressive Germany under Hitler , and in the Far East , where Japan was exerting continues pressure on China ( CORE , pp. 40–43 ) . |
| 25 | The mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care , as witnessed by the publication since 1985 of four major reports on the topic . |
| 26 | Duncan saw the look of mystification on Leeming 's face . |
| 27 | The General saw the glitter of sunlight flashing from the brass decorations of the muskets . |
| 28 | Andrew Beattie 's wife saw the secretary of state read the statement on television . |
| 29 | halvard / scandinavian whites ( i saw the match in oslo i a footbal-pub:hoorible place — but cheap beer ) |
| 30 | Adam saw the trawler on radar , but used automatic pilot . |