Example sentences of "they saw the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 2 | They saw the God of Israel ( 9–11 ) : having a meal with someone is the essence of fellowship in the Near East . |
| 3 | Thus they were forced to remain in hiding and at half past two they saw the glow of the fires that Mayne had lit at Tamit lighting up the horizon . |
| 4 | They saw the mixture of deterrence and retribution that characterised neoclassical criminology as too soft — favouring criminals ' rights at the expense of the protection of society . |
| 5 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 6 | As wage earners themselves , they saw the morality of equal pay . |
| 7 | In particular , they saw the function of the British fascists as providing stewards for Conservative party meetings to help maintain free speech and law and order . |
| 8 | If they saw the state of you , you 're going to get pay day . |
| 9 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 10 | They saw the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon , driving out of the huge city past a tangle of ravines and yellow clifftops hung with shacks of corrugated iron and this and that . |
| 11 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 12 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |
| 13 | However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school . |
| 14 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 15 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 16 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 17 | Together they watched the setting up of the town 's first fish and chip shop , they saw the decline of Mr Healy in the hotel and stood side by side on the day that he was taken to the sanatorium . |
| 18 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 19 | They saw the growth of unemployment , related as it was to a deepening economic crisis , as being accompanied by growing state coercion . |
| 20 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 21 | They saw the duty of the auditor , whether in contract or tort , as identical , following the decision of the House of Lords in Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [ 1964 ] AC 465 : see further 14.11 . |
| 22 | This means that they saw the death of Jesus as part of God 's plan . |
| 23 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 24 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 25 | But although delegates opposed the Home Secretary 's proposals , they decided to put the motion on ice until they saw the strength of his final document on the matter , said Chris Burgess , secretary of the Suffolk Police Federation . |
| 26 | They saw the pain of that memory in his eyes . |
| 27 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |