Example sentences of "they saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exciting game at Heathfield saw Dawn Nicholson top score on 22 points for the home team as they saw off the challenge of Shildon Aces by 68 points to 47 . |
| 2 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 3 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 4 | Rose 's coming to the house had smoothed their lives and allowed them to concentrate everything on school and study , which , above all , they saw as a way out of the house and into a life of their own . |
| 5 | That is to say , all seized on an element of structural and formal strength in his work , which they saw as a corrective to the formlessness which had characterized so much French painting since the Impressionists had insisted on the validity of an instantaneous form of vision , that had so often dissolved the solidity of the material world into a haze of atmospheric colour and light . |
| 6 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 7 | Belgium , France , West Germany , the Netherlands and Luxembourg reached a draft agreement in March 1989 providing for the abolition of their respective border controls by the beginning of January 1990 , in what they saw as a model for the complete abolition of customs posts throughout the EC after 1992 . |
| 8 | There were demonstrations in Moldavia ( renamed Moldova ) calling for greater control over local affairs , and in particular for official status for the Moldavian language ; there were counter-demonstrations by the republic 's non-Moldavian population , more than a third of the total , against what they saw as a form of reverse discrimination ( Russian , in the event , was retained as a means of inter-nationality communication ) . |
| 9 | Increased immigration militated against the absorption of new arrivals in existing Shetlander networks ; while at the same time it was accompanied by the creation of new networks composed of incomers -incomers found shared interests in what they saw as a frontier zone . |
| 10 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 11 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 12 | Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms . |
| 13 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 14 | The overwhelming desire of the Chris Pattens and Sarah Hoggs and Michael Heseltines was to get away from what they saw as the incubus of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals . |
| 16 | They went to town on the story , piled up what they saw as the evidence against my father until everyone , it seemed , thought he was guilty . ’ |
| 17 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 18 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 19 | They were saddened by what they saw as the betrayal of the Labour Party by its leader Ramsay MacDonald , who had joined the National Government . |
| 20 | First , they attacked what they saw as the belles-lettrist and philological establishment within the discipline . |
| 21 | The musicians involved in punk were also intensely wary of what they saw as the control exercised over popular music by the major record companies . |
| 22 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 23 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 24 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 25 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 26 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 27 | What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system . |
| 28 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 29 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 30 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |