Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 2 | She thought that as she knew so well what her therapist would say , it was indeed a waste of money to continue seeing her . |
| 3 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 4 | It currently trades from 11 stores , including the flagship in Newcastle 's Eldon Square , but the retailer has seen a huge increase in its core market . |
| 5 | External information provision has seen the advent of end-user searching of external hosts . |
| 6 | But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground . |
| 7 | Alongside its work with the increasingly excellent These Immortal Souls , Howard 's guitar has seen recent service with Crime & The City Solution and Lydia Lunch . |
| 8 | ‘ If an English clerk wants to see the Lord Bruce , then that can be arranged . ’ |
| 9 | However , it also came to be recognised that a sale can be by description even though the buyer has seen the goods . |
| 10 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 12 | But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen , the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action . ’ |
| 13 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | Emergency services , fell search and rescue teams and RAF and Royal Navy helicopters were called in after a driver reported seeing a light aircraft flying just feet above his vehicle in the area between Consett and the Derwent Reservoir . |
| 15 | One report says that No. 26 was even more thoroughly rebuilt and re-classified ‘ Type K/2 ’ , ( the writer has seen no photographic evidence , but confirmed in official list ) . |
| 16 | In its 130-page publication on the subject , an aspiring paperback writer has seen fit to throw in quotes and subtitles taken from famous Beatles ' songs , which is apparently intended ‘ to disrupt the close relationship between the thinkable and speakable and to think the otherwise unspeakable ’ . |
| 17 | My heart sank to see their faces . |
| 18 | the north which is consistent with the output story and the south west again consistent , south west has seen falls in export orders for s three surveys in a row now erm the north west again export orders flat and again down in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It is hard to trade information : the buyer needs to see the information before being willing to offer a price , and having seen the information then has no incentive to pay for it ! |
| 20 | THIS election has seen a new phrase enter the common language : ‘ The fabled C2s ’ . |
| 21 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
| 22 | In it 's short life , the Open University has seen tens of thousands of graduates , and literally millions of students … nearly all of them without an academic background . |
| 23 | Amato has seen his Socialist party split and his government rocked by a huge bribery scandal which has been sweeping the country over the past year . |
| 24 | What faith has seen , obedience is prepared to sign . |
| 25 | ‘ Their enthusiasm has seen the project through . |
| 26 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 27 | Money has seen to that . |
| 28 | In illus.1 a sophisticated Paris readership expected to see reality heightened , not burlesqued . |
| 29 | Pong met Saw Maung , who was reported to have reiterated Myanma 's readiness to increase co-operation with Thailand on trade , fishing and tourism . |
| 30 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |