Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 2 | The police handling of rape complaints was shown in a documentary on Thames television , with the approval of the police , suggesting that they saw no problem in this . |
| 3 | She says that she saw an ad in a newspaper . |
| 4 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 5 | Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime . |
| 6 | Surgery carried out on Sept. 11 revealed that he had prostate cancer , but when he left hospital on Sept. 16 he declared that he saw no reason to retire early . |
| 7 | It can be proved by witnesses stating that they saw the defendant ‘ drive round the roundabout and wander into the side of another car ’ or ‘ brake rather late and run into the car in front ’ or by the defendant stating that ‘ I misjudged the gap or distance ’ or ‘ I did n't see the other car , motorbike , cycle or pedestrian , etc . ’ |
| 8 | In the majority of cases the conveyance will be a motor car and the ‘ taking ’ is proved by a witness stating that he saw the defendant take the car , or by an admission to that effect by the defendant . |
| 9 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 10 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 11 | Although he ran for office saying that he saw no need to raise taxes , he put them up by $1.8 billion in 1990 , the biggest increase ever seen in his largely affluent , suburban state . |
| 12 | He later claimed that he initiated the demand for independence within one year : he asserted that he saw the Governor who promised to pass on his message to London . |
| 13 | This means that they saw the death of Jesus as part of God 's plan . |
| 14 | When Charles Temple asked himself what form the finally evolved connection between the conquering races and the conquered , now existing in partially evolved form as Indirect Rule , and based on ‘ the relations which exist between a more competent man and a less competent ’ , might take , he answered that he saw no reason |
| 15 | Lalumière , in an address to the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London on Feb. 28 , 1991 , said that she saw the Council of Europe as an important institutional link between western and eastern Europe , particularly in the field of human rights . |
| 16 | On the day I was born , Thomas Cook and Son 's were offering an all-in holiday on the Riviera for twenty-eight pounds and sixteen shillings : there were outrages in Ulster , and the Secretary of State for Air said that he saw no future for commercial aviation in Europe . |
| 17 | An old man with only one eye said that he saw the Virgin Mary standing behind Gabriel , dressed in purple and green . |
| 18 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 19 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 20 | It also suggests that he saw the gift of the Spirit as the supreme characteristic of the kingdom . |
| 21 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |