Example sentences of "[noun pl] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 2 | It probably comes from a throned statue of the goddess ‘ of simple workmanship ’ which Pausanias saw within the temple , Zeus in a helmet standing beside her . |
| 3 | And so what credit O'Neill might have acquired for his reform package was instantly lost by what Catholics saw as a refusal to confront the loyalist mobs who really ran Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 5 | An Information Bureau , the Cominform , was established which Western observers saw as the re-creation of the old Communist International , designed to foster Marxist revolution . |
| 6 | The fact that the Fund was only too willing to lend in return for a written undertaking that domestic economic policy would follow the lines agreed in negotiations between Treasury officials and the Fund investigators in the autumn of 1976 , involved what many Labour activists saw as a loss of governing powers to an external force that was anti-socialist . |
| 7 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 8 | Some judges and lawyers saw in the development a serious threat to the independent impartial adjudication of disputes by the courts . |
| 9 | Thus , the reinforcement that the children saw in the film , but did not directly experience , influenced their behaviour . |
| 10 | The visions which our ancestors saw with the mind 's eye , must be embodied for us in palpable form … all must be made palpable to sight , no less than to feeling . ’ |