Example sentences of "[noun pl] saw [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some heads saw progressivism as providing a basic recipe for primary practice in any context , others admitted to having their ‘ philosophy ’ shaped more by the particular social and cultural circumstances within which they worked , especially the backgrounds of the children and the attitudes and expectations of their parents . |
| 2 | Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum . |
| 3 | Income on livestock farms remained stable while combined beef and dairy units saw revenue fall by 4% . |
| 4 | The Iranians saw domination of this hilly area as throwing the way open for a push towards Baghdad . |
| 5 | Whatever the differences between them , however , those who were not attached to religious organizations saw sport and recreation as the ‘ first reasons ’ for their existence . |
| 6 | Most consumers had bought stereo equipment by then , and equipment manufacturers saw quadraphony as a golden opportunity to cash in on sales of new records , pickups , amplifiers , and loudspeakers . |
| 7 | Carradine 's eyes saw faraway sights , and he ran a hand through his shoulder-length hair . |
| 8 | Other plant ecologists saw physiology as their starting point , because it was the interaction between the plant as a living organism and its environment that determined whether or not a particular species could live in a certain area . |
| 9 | It is important to remember , moreover , that most eighteenth-century reformers saw freedom in largely negative terms . |
| 10 | Comparison of market capitalisation to turnover ratios saw Application Hardware with 1.1 ; Components with 0.63 ; Distribution with 0.38 ; and Peripherals with 0.31 . |
| 11 | By the first decade of the twentieth century the majority of medics saw return to enforced regulation of VD as out of the question . |
| 12 | For the next two years businessmen and governments saw inflation , not the threat of recession , as the real risk . |
| 13 | As ex-communists hung on in Serbia , many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy . |
| 14 | Hudson 's schoolboys saw science as masculine and the arts as feminine . |
| 15 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 16 | The next hundred years saw Christianity reassert itself and by 774 the manor of Halling had been established . |
| 17 | The moments they portray are the life of the next world , for the Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives along the banks of the Nile . |
| 18 | L lived some two miles from the burgled premises and during the morning of June 4 , police officers saw bin liners and a cardboard box being carried out of L's home and put into a car . |
| 19 | Land speculators , politicians and farmers saw profit in these wetlands . |
| 20 | The farmers saw training and education as a means to more efficient production in a situation where costs were likely to rise and prices to fall . |
| 21 | Millions of viewers saw presenter Howard Leader take the tumble wearing dark glasses and clutching a white stick . |
| 22 | However , talk of raising German interest rates saw sterling weaken against the Mark and it closed down over one Ffenning at two Deutsche Marks point nine three six O. |
| 23 | The final twenty minutes saw play confined to the middle third of the pitch as both linesmen became rather flag happy with a succession of offside decisions which infuriated players and crowd alike . |
| 24 | For their part , the employers saw solidarity as their greatest problem . |
| 25 | Some biologists saw ecology as a science that would help to support the exploitation of the environment by showing how to minimize the damage caused . |
| 26 | Figures from the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe ( APME ) show that sales by West European manufacturers of the two biggest plastics — low density polyethylene ( LDPE ) and PVC — were hardly changed between 1989 and 1990 ( LDPE 3.6m tonnes ; PVC 3.9m tonnes ) , but the other three major products saw volume gains . |
| 27 | Having intellectual origins in Owenite socialism , pioneer cooperators saw control of distribution as a means toward the abolition of capitalism , or in minimal terms , a major shift in the balance of power and wealth . |
| 28 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 29 | Lower interest charges saw investment income fall 17 p.c. to £8.4m , but losses on the group 's general branch business were reduced by 25 p.c. to £4m , with a 52 p.c. jump in losses on motor insurance to £5m , offset by an improvement in the property underwriting account from the previous year 's losses to break-even . |
| 30 | At the turn of the century , Americans saw fiction and reality sometimes converging . |