Example sentences of "[noun sg] saw [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 . |
| 2 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 3 | Since 1981 , when the IBM PC fist saw the light of day , its users have always had DOS , in one flavour or another . |
| 4 | The young hedgehog saw the mountain of food in the dish , and saw the boy place the dish before the dog . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The General saw the glitter of sunlight flashing from the brass decorations of the muskets . |
| 11 | Andrew Beattie 's wife saw the secretary of state read the statement on television . |
| 12 | The objection that the scientific revolution saw the separation of science from both religion and magic hardly clears the air , because religious beliefs played a role in the assault on magical practices , with hard-headed Protestants putting magic and Roman Catholic rituals in much the same category . |
| 13 | The parliamentary Select Committee on Education saw a need for clarification and a more analytical approach , but the call for a national advisory body was rejected by the government . |
| 14 | But this figure can mislead , as was pointed out by many people as soon as the Fleischmann and Pons paper saw the light of day , and by some , at least , of those who had sight of their DOE application . |
| 15 | This week saw the nadir of confusion . |
| 16 | The latter gambit failed , since many in the party who were sceptical of the benefits of further nationalisation saw the removal of clause four as an unnecessarily provocative step , ‘ removing Genesis from the Bible ’ as Harold Wilson put it . |
| 17 | It was this latter purpose which attracted most money , for in the 1940s and 1950s the government saw the development of youth clubs as one of its priorities . |
| 18 | The Korean War marked the spread of the Cold War beyond Europe and the Atlantic : henceforward the US government saw the containment of communism as a global task . |
| 19 | Folly saw a glimpse of gold , and something that sparkled , then caught her breath as he slipped a narrow band on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 20 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 22 | A local evangelist working with a youth mission saw the potential of Church C's premises for coffee bar evangelism . |
| 23 | This year saw a change of venue for Convocation 's Annual Dinner ; after several years of requests from the Students ' Union that the facilities at Castle Irwell be considered , it was agreed to accept the Students ' Union 's offer . |
| 24 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 25 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 26 | The following century saw the spread of Gnosticism , the believers in which laid claim to secret , or privileged , knowledge and so were called gnostikoi ( ‘ knowers ’ ) . |
| 27 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 28 | Indeed the great Puritan era of the seventeenth century saw the heyday of witchcraft . |
| 29 | The mid-nineteenth century saw the emergence in South East Asia of Asian capitalists who were initially subservient to Western interests , engaging in the expansion of primary exports and the distribution of imported Western manufactures . |
| 30 | By the seventeenth century , the use of herbs and essential oils in medicine saw a decline in favour of the newly emerging chemical drugs . |