Example sentences of "saw [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others on the right saw the fearsome prospect of a Kenneth Clarke leadership . |
| 2 | This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy . |
| 3 | But feminists saw the serious implications for women in this clause , since problems in the rehousing of the other partner in cases of marital breakdown were bound to result , and campaigned , unfortunately with no success , against this clause . |
| 4 | 1834 saw the legal end to this practice ( at least in theory ) when Edwin Chadwick drafted , and Parliament passed , the Poor Law Amendment Act . |
| 5 | Holly saw the blackened uniforms of the guards as they moved amongst the debris of the office that they had retrieved . |
| 6 | The Kennedy round of cuts in the later sixties saw the average level of tariffs on manufactures falling by one-third , and by half on machinery and vehicles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The anthropologists saw the rural smallholder as the bearer of tradition and wedded to the same way of life as the generations before him . |
| 9 | She saw the chunky figure of a child in vest and knickers , neck red from scrubbing , eyes red from weeping . |
| 10 | As the couple approached him , George could not hear what remarks were passed but saw the dull flush of anger suffuse the shepherd 's face , as the farmer picked up his wrist and spanned it , passing his hands up the man 's arms to judge his muscles . |
| 11 | Basically the minority who think about northern politics saw the good guy with his arm around the bad guy , at a time when bombs were still going off . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | The scientific age saw the new phenomenon of the instantaneous transmission of thought across vast distances . |
| 14 | He saw the new drugs as a threat to his well-being , and lived in dread of the day when they might be prescribed for him . |
| 15 | The roaring of the American boom rang round the Western world where everyone in every hard-pressed country saw the new world as an Aladdin 's cave of American goods , American entertainment and the American style of living . |
| 16 | He realized that because he saw the new world in the people 's eyes ; and if the populace wanted change , then there could be no return to what had been . |
| 17 | Freud , as Smith points out , saw the new kinds of collective social controls as suppressing basic natural desires , and , as a result , these instincts were being channelled into other more harmful forms such as aggression . |
| 18 | It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press . |
| 19 | It saw the new enemy as a virtual replica of the old one , i.e. as a band of Marxist revolutionaries committed to the destruction of the Free World . |
| 20 | Trixie saw the black cliff of the freighter bludgeoning its way towards them . |
| 21 | when he saw the stranger change into Doctor Jekyll in front of his eyes . |
| 22 | As they rounded another bend she saw the lighted windows of the Swan Inn , relief swept through her . |
| 23 | Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy , decaying stonework and the painted wood ; Graham saw the grimy glass of cracked windows ; fading political posters flapped in a slight breeze . |
| 24 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 25 | The NVA saw the criminal law as an instrument for improving public morals-positively educative rather than simply repressive , to be used in conjunction with preventive work . |
| 26 | In the motorway restaurant I asked for tea and wholemeal toast , and saw the usual look of incomprehension on the face of the girl behind the counter . |
| 27 | The next day saw the religious ceremony at Notre Dame — which again led to family difficulties . |
| 28 | An Irish audience saw the All Blacks for the first time when they trained at Donnybrook on Monday , and the first impression of Mick Quinn , the former international fly-half , was : ‘ The omens are not good . |
| 29 | His compassion intensified when he saw the other inhabitant of the bed — a small , shabby teddy-bear . |
| 30 | Andrew also saw the other side of Kenneth Williams , Williams the depressive . |