Example sentences of "saw [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 2 | The armies saw each other for the first time at just after eleven o'clock . |
| 3 | They saw each other for the first time on the fourth night of the marriage ceremonies and now have a son . |
| 4 | Although the Duvalierists were prohibited from participating in the electoral process , their brutal disruption of the 1987 elections together with their current ability to operate outside the law , meant that most observers saw little prospect for the holding of free elections on Nov. 4 , as scheduled . |
| 5 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 6 | The PCD saw three options for the Institute : to keep arrangements as they now stand , with private hearings followed by limited reports ; to make open hearings the rule , but granting the tribunal discretion to close all or part of the hearings in specific circumstances ; or to allow open hearings on the request of the accused or in matters of public concern . |
| 7 | Renishaw Plc saw net profits for the six months to December 31 down 27.1% at £2.2m , on turnover that rose 3.3% to £22m . |
| 8 | Kode International Plc saw net profits for the year to December 31 up 163.9% at £636,000m , on sales up 33.3% to £20.9m . |
| 9 | Lucas Industries Plc saw net losses for the six months to January 31 stood at £4.9m against profits of $77.4m , after £3.5m redundancy and reorganisation costs this time and £15.4m last time , on turnover that rose 11.5% to £1,287m . |
| 10 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 11 | At that moment one of our more naive trainees appeared on deck , saw Marty swimming for the ladder and remarked in amazement , " What 's Marty doing in the water then ? " |
| 12 | Both sales saw keen competition for the more interesting lots . |