Example sentences of "[adj] saw [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1890s saw the triumph of megalomania as size took over and passengers and tracks increased in number . |
| 2 | 1985 saw the publication of Education for All , the 800-page Swann Report on the education of children from ethnic minority groups ( DES ) . |
| 3 | The year 1808 saw a revival of religion in the area around Portadown and remarkable open-air meetings were held in Portadown itself , at Mahon , Scotch Street , Derryhale , Richhill and Dawson 's Grove . |
| 4 | Some saw the Revolution in providentialist terms . |
| 5 | The Middle Neolithic saw the introduction of axe and double-axe forms , but the battle-axe people themselves preferred perforated disc forms . |
| 6 | The period 1945 — 90 saw the number of morning papers decline , with total sales fluctuating ; gains and losses among the evening titles , with a long term decline in sales ; and more losses than gains among the weeklies , whose market changed sharply towards the end with the arrival of free sheets . |
| 7 | JANUARY ‘ 89 saw the beginning of transformation at the Wallingford maltings with the launch of a massive £4 million investment programme to modernise the existing plant and give a boost to production . |
| 8 | Despite the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Accords the years after 1975 saw the decline of détente and the reassertion of Cold War attitudes , even though strong support continued in Europe for East-West contacts . |
| 9 | Behind the scenes 1962 saw the reorganisation of university applications through a central clearinghouse — UCCA — and this required a confidential report of each candidate . |
| 10 | Ostpolitik dates from 1969 and the 1970s saw a resurgence of anti-Americanism in Germany . |
| 11 | The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a plethora of government sponsored reports which sought to influence the way in which local authorities were organised and the services that they provided . |
| 12 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 13 | Hambleton ( 1981 ) , for example , argues that the late 1970s saw a shift in policy towards a programme-dominated approach . |
| 14 | It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies . |
| 15 | Even in Russia the years after the death of Peter I saw the exemption from service of considerable social groups hitherto liable — the merchants of Astrakhan in return for a money payment , the arms-makers of Tula , Church servants , some groups of the better-off peasantry . |
| 16 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 17 | Finally , the late eighties saw the launch of satellite TV services , initially by Sky and then by the ill-fated BSB , which was taken over by Sky to form BSkyB when BSB succumbed to financial difficulties less than two years after going on air , in late 1990 . |
| 18 | It was there I first saw the Face To Face programmes , too , little realising John Freeman would one day become my greatest influence as an interviewer . |
| 19 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 20 | XPG4 — originally set to come out last May , but delayed due to ‘ complex documentation ’ ( UX No 385 ) is the next-generation of X/Open 's Portability Guide , and builds on the long-established XPG3 , which first saw the light of day back in September 1988 ( UX No 197 ) . |
| 21 | But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s . |
| 22 | THIS wide ranging exhibition of metal work in all its many forms first saw the light of day in Lincoln . |
| 23 | When cash ran out , there was credit , and the 1920s saw the development of credit by hire-purchase , or buying by instalments . |
| 24 | The European world in general saw a flurry of enthusiasm for planned reconstruction in 1945 . |
| 25 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 26 | Thus , while the 1950s and 1960s saw a growth in employment , they were also a period of significant delocalization and the manufacturing sector was increasingly composed of ‘ branch plants ’ . |
| 27 | The 1960s saw the proliferation of charter flights and the 1970s brought mass travel with the 747s — the ‘ Jumbo ’ jets . |
| 28 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan saw the rise of headhunting as part of a growing trend of employing outside consultants for specific problems . |
| 29 | Both saw a beauty in vitality ; both preached a gospel . |
| 30 | The second half of May 1990 saw an increase in tension in Sind between ethnic Sindhis and Muhajirs , Indian Moslem migrants who had settled in the province after Indian partition in 1947 . |