Example sentences of "[art] [adj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 2 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 3 | So you try it with the sixes see if they work try it with the sevens try it with the eights see what works . |
| 4 | England in the 1640s saw the Copernican texts of Galileo , Kepler , and the Dutch astronomer Philip van Lansbergen ( 1561–1632 ) read with increasing approval . |
| 5 | That the archbishop of the prestigious see of Milan , graced by St Ambrose and St Charles Borromeo , should not be made a cardinal looked like a deliberate snub . |
| 6 | The latter part of the thirties saw small triumphs amidst a larger failure . |
| 7 | But whereas the direct mail method is ideal for computer-literates who know what they want , computer superstores allow the undecided or the uninitiated to see under one roof what is on offer and to seek on-the-spot advice . |
| 8 | The rich see population control as the best way of conserving their environmental well-being . |
| 9 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 10 | On 12 September 1375 the pope awarded Wakefield the lesser see of Worcester , his share of the spoils carved out between royal and papal envoys at the concordat of Bruges ; this superseded an election by the chapter of their prior , supposedly confirmed by the king . |
| 11 | But the two the one the eldest is dead and the youngest see . |
| 12 | The English saw the coronation of Charles VII at Reims as a considerable threat to their authority . |
| 13 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 14 | He had inherited when he became Mamur Zapt a vast network of spies , informers and paid agents which dated back to his Ottoman predecessors and which the British saw no reason to disturb . |
| 15 | Similarly with regard to attitudes to management , the British workers fitted the Blauner model , expressing a high level of contentment with existing procedures of decision making and a consensus about organisational goals , whereas the French saw their enterprises as socially dichotomous and exploitative . |
| 16 | Britain withdrew into what it regarded as a ‘ special relationship ’ in defence with the USA , which the French saw as a relationship of strategic dependence . |
| 17 | Of equal importance , perhaps , was the assumption that France would , as a matter of course , recover Indochina and , although it might be described as ‘ free ’ , the status of Indochina or Vietnam or , as it happened , part of Vietnam , would , as the French saw it , be determined by its membership of the French Union . |
| 18 | The French see their dreams of European domination being shattered as the ‘ centre of Europe ’ shifts from Paris to Berlin . |
| 19 | But the way the French see it , the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them . |
| 20 | The 1890s saw the triumph of megalomania as size took over and passengers and tracks increased in number . |
| 21 | The 1890s saw them at their most confident , both in terms of presentation and in the range of varieties offered ; the catalogues from Suttons and Webbs were especially impressive . |
| 22 | Political fear of the working class was not acute enough to bring about a widespread demand to conciliate the workers ; rather the 1890s saw attempts to suppress trade unionism through the law courts , lock-outs and the use of ‘ blackleg ’ labour . |
| 23 | Whatever the fiscal sees , he sees through the policemen 's eyes . |
| 24 | In the meantime , said Thorfinn , since the western portion of Lothian adhering to the lands of Strathclyde and Cumbria and the old see of Glasgow had never , as he understood it , been in dispute , he intended to dispose of the land there as he thought best , with such fortifications as he considered necessary to preserve order . |
| 25 | The old see old beautiful legs |
| 26 | say they not in their expertise , so I mean , it 's just an example of I mean , the old see a tourist shop and then I |
| 27 | The 1900s saw the opening of a number of new centres and missions for the deaf , among them Bury , West Ham , Plymouth and Chester ( although the latter had first been meeting at Stockport from 1889 onwards ) . |
| 28 | In Lonsdale 's view , the 1790s saw a reaction against women writers . |
| 29 | Just one more and I 'll do just have a quick look round the outside see if they 're here . |
| 30 | The Japanese see France 's new prime minister , Edith Cresson , as the biggest threat to closer political and cultural as well as economic ties with the European Community . |