Example sentences of "he saw [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |
| 2 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 3 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 4 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 5 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 6 | The pines in the wood , where Uncle Hilbert 's hunt-terrier Blaze was the last creature laid to rest , he saw as a useful and lucrative crop . |
| 7 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 8 | All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target . |
| 9 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 10 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 11 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 12 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 13 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |
| 14 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 15 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 16 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 17 | In any case , the language coming from the Chairman 's office was usually that of pure political correctness , with many attacks on censorship and on what he saw as the benighted enemies of art . |
| 18 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
| 19 | In his specially-commissioned report , Dr Lyons pinpointed what he saw as the four factors leading to his suicide . |
| 20 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 21 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 22 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 23 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 24 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 25 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 26 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
| 27 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 28 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 29 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 30 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |