Example sentences of "saw [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 4 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 5 | One important effect of this conflict appears to have been to accentuate what many economists already saw as a serious drift on the part of the OECD world into recession . |
| 6 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 7 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 8 | The result , the 1948 Treaty of Brussels , was a 50 year pact ‘ for collaboration in economic , social and cultural matters , and for collective self-defence ’ , which Britain saw as a practical basis for cooperation , but not union . |
| 9 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 10 | More than 10m went into what some saw as a last-ditch attempt to compete with ITV . |
| 11 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 12 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 13 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 14 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 15 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 16 | The European revolutions of 1848 he saw as a golden opportunity for introducing constitutional monarchies and a united Germany in alliance with Britain . |
| 17 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 18 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 19 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 20 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 21 | Atlanticists attacked what they saw as a false parallelism in de Gaulle 's treatment of the two superpowers . |
| 22 | It was increasingly difficult for the government to rely on popular hostility towards the teachers ' unions in getting through what many saw as a direct attack on quality in the schools . |
| 23 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 24 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 25 | The poets , mankind 's unacknowledged legislators , have shown death to be what Anne Lindbergh , after the murder of her kidnapped child , saw as a little door . |
| 26 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 27 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The US administration , anxious not to be pushed into vetoing what it saw as an unacceptable draft resolution originally proposed by Cuba , Colombia , Malaysia and Yemen , had launched prolonged diplomatic efforts to secure this more acceptable formulation . |