Example sentences of "[adj] saw [art] [noun sg] of [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 The Middle Neolithic saw the introduction of axe and double-axe forms , but the battle-axe people themselves preferred perforated disc forms .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Behind the scenes 1962 saw the reorganisation of university applications through a central clearinghouse — UCCA — and this required a confidential report of each candidate .
9 Ostpolitik dates from 1969 and the 1970s saw a resurgence of anti-Americanism in Germany .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s .
17 THIS wide ranging exhibition of metal work in all its many forms first saw the light of day in Lincoln .
18 When cash ran out , there was credit , and the 1920s saw the development of credit by hire-purchase , or buying by instalments .
19 The European world in general saw a flurry of enthusiasm for planned reconstruction in 1945 .
20 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 .
21 The 1960s saw the proliferation of charter flights and the 1970s brought mass travel with the 747s — the ‘ Jumbo ’ jets .
22 David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan saw the rise of headhunting as part of a growing trend of employing outside consultants for specific problems .
23 She stepped off the plane wearing an old primrose Catherine Walker number which last saw the light of day five years ago .
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