Example sentences of "see a major [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although sales of the machines may be flat , ‘ at least we have n't seen a major fall like IBM ’ . |
| 2 | In the meantime visitors to the wheel can see a major exhibition on milling through the ages . |
| 3 | Apart from the Parkhurst riot of 1969 , disturbances were comparatively infrequent in British prisons until the year of 1972 , which saw a major wave of rooftop demon-strations in many prisons . |
| 4 | 1992 saw a major increase in software expertise to enhance our computing capabilities and hasten the arrival of our new field software in 1993 . |
| 5 | The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration . |
| 6 | The year 1660 saw a major revolution in grave-clothes , indirectly leading to the firm establishment of undertaking as a distinct trade , the birth of a new industry and some additional work for the jobbing printer ; for in this year an Act came into force , which decreed that all persons had to be buried in shifts , shrouds and winding-sheets made of woollen material , rather than linen , and free from ‘ Flax , Hemp , Silk , Hair , Gold or Silver , or other than what is made of Sheeps Wooll only ’ . |
| 7 | The 1970s saw a major shift in focus and suddenly people were describing the hippocampus as a ‘ cognitive map ’ ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ) or as the repository of ‘ working memory ’ ( Olton 1983 ) . |
| 8 | The post-Revolution wars placed a terrible burden on the Scottish economy , exacerbated by the fact that the 1690s in Scotland saw a major crisis of subsistence . |