Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |
| 2 | We saw in an earlier chapter how innovatory schools such as Madeley Court and Codsall Comprehensive regarded " in-service training " as an important factor in their planning , and how such training was provided , not only from courses outside the school , but also from within , by judicious deployment of available personnel . |
| 3 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 4 | The US administration , anxious not to be pushed into vetoing what it saw as an unacceptable draft resolution originally proposed by Cuba , Colombia , Malaysia and Yemen , had launched prolonged diplomatic efforts to secure this more acceptable formulation . |
| 5 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |
| 6 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 7 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 8 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |