Example sentences of "saw [art] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Many feminists also saw the struggle for the vote in moral terms , but while they were prepared to use maternalist arguments in support of their campaign , they paid little attention to the individual needs of mothers .
2 Congressional sources believe the White House saw the chance for a quick , psychologically valuable victory over the Democratic leaders .
3 Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built .
4 I saw the voice for the first time !
5 Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time .
6 Analysts saw the proposals for the year from March 1990 as cautious rather than radical .
7 when you first saw the house for the very , very first time and when your wife saw the house , what was the reaction ?
8 She saw the advertisement for a technical translator in the newspaper .
9 When I saw the advertisement for the secondment , it immediately captured my interest for a whole host of reasons .
10 ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately .
11 The National Consumer Council saw the need for a greater effort , particularly in regard to funding , to give advice to the 560,000 households in Britain who at any time had three or more ‘ problem debts ’ , and the 170,000 who had five or more .
12 Hopkins saw the need for a revival of the personalized approach to rescue work .
13 Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies .
14 Dennis Cunningham , joint managing director in a company which also has an extensive PR side , saw the need for a fuller client service some time ago and now it 's proving its worth to both the client and the company .
15 Steeped in the theory of the two powers of the regnum and the sacerdotium , Innocent , in his world view , saw the need for a strong emperor .
16 After 1937 , when the international situation worsened , increasing numbers of militant fascists and anti-semites , disillusioned with Mosley and Leese , and encouraged by nazi success in Europe , saw the need for an umbrella organization which would co-ordinate anti-semitic activity .
17 ‘ I saw the advert for a job in Peter 's shop .
18 When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there .
19 John Cadbury saw the potential for the product , and with his experience in roasting beans and preparing nib for his shop , decided to open a factory .
20 And as she hit the wall , the breath knocked out of her , she saw the intruder for the first time .
21 and Wesley were lovers Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer prizes red .
22 Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer ship red .
23 My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially .
24 IN THE days when a pocket calculator cost £100 and microcomputers were a thing of the future , I saw a niche for a book of cartoons of the genre that appeared in the computer rags .
25 We saw a trailer for a film , it 's Mr was it ?
26 Donald Dewar saw no future for the Government .
27 When Quincy Jones became a convert , validating the view that rap is the bebop of our time , he saw an opening for a magazine which took the music and its environment seriously .
28 Then I saw an advert for a new consciousness-raising group in Spare Rib , and went along to the first meeting .
29 The I saw an advert for the machine I wanted , with the software I wanted , but it cost too much .
30 She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive .
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