Example sentences of "[noun pl] saw the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must not happen , ’ said Grainne more quietly , and several of her listeners saw the golden light beginning to glow in her eyes . |
| 2 | The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler . |
| 3 | Beamish was slowly grasping his newfound trade and , with Pybus at his side , players and supporters saw the coming season as the dawning of a new age . |
| 4 | The fourth and fifth centuries saw the wholesale Romanization of Christianity and Christianization of Roman society . |
| 5 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the final triumph of scientific medicine under male control . |
| 6 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 7 | Two days later the Communists saw the new grouping as an " essentially disruptive organisation which can only hinder the development of unity between existing political parties and organisations against the Chamberlain Government " . |
| 8 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 9 | The following years saw the surviving water wheels replaced by a turbine , the power continuing to be provided by the Soudley Stream , much water coming from the Soudley Ponds as well as the Shakemantle Iron mine . |
| 10 | Indeed , the inter-war years saw the continued decline of the Liberal Party and the persistence of factionalism . |
| 11 | They decided that video evidence — millions of viewers saw the offending blow on BBC 's Match of the Day — was sufficiently incriminating to bring 29-year-old Wright to book . |
| 12 | Millions of television viewers saw the French defender 's brutal head-butt on Stuart Pearce during the European Championship in June . |
| 13 | Certainly the early printers saw the commercial viability of producing texts for this market although the writings of the English mystics were not well represented . |
| 14 | Once Sipotai 's scouts saw the small party under Burun 's silver banner , they would forget everything else . |
| 15 | A further five minutes saw the entire family asleep again , the battle in the bed forgotten , a violent expression of servitude to the Cotton Masters . |
| 16 | Horrified holiday-makers saw the five-foot reptile clamp its jaws round her leg after she and a pal went for a dip in a national park pool . |
| 17 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
| 18 | His secular critics saw the misguided attempt of an evangelical Christian to adapt his theology to an insuperable threat from science . |
| 19 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 20 | However , most of the other members saw the social charter as a necessary counter-balance . |
| 21 | Cleady the majority of working class voters saw the Labour Party as ‘ their ’ party and wished to see it remain in government , while the majority of middle class voters supported the Tories , but in neither case did the party or the ‘ class ’ have a radical and distinctive programme for the transformation of social relations in Britain . |
| 22 | Sir Anthony famously discovered in Cardiff this month what the rest of the country had known for a year : that many children saw the grisly film and were delighted by his Oscar-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero . |
| 23 | Several children saw the funny side of the rhyme and laughed . |
| 24 | German thinkers saw the hierarchical order of ‘ estates ’ in their own country give way to a society of conflicting classes . |
| 25 | Idealist philosophers saw the human body as the most perfect expression of the vertebrate form . |
| 26 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 27 | The anthropologists saw the rural smallholder as the bearer of tradition and wedded to the same way of life as the generations before him . |