Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] see [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 9 , however , only days after it had begun , the Brazilian Justice Minister , Gen. Saulo Ramos , announced that the operation had ended , a decision widely seen as a concession to mining interests . |
| 2 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 3 | The Ryder Cup match at The Belfry featured the biggest tented village ever seen at a sporting event in the British Isles . |
| 4 | Away to the left , black menacing clouds of cu-nim were piled up over mountains dimly seen through a haze of humidity . |
| 5 | And Derrida certainly sees in a number of literary works ( particularly those of Mallarmé and Georges Bataille ) a keener sense of the principle of différance than can be found in any work of linguistics or philosophy . |
| 6 | Not only was it a Test Match victory more substantial than any before , but Hutton 's 364 scored in thirteen hours and twenty minutes was the most remarkable exhibition of concentration and endurance ever seen on a cricket field . |
| 7 | Some children take on an unnatural , waxen appearance that their mothers sometimes see as a kind of death mask . |
| 8 | A simple example of a procedural clause sometimes seen in a consumer contract is " No refunds without receipt " . |
| 9 | But what do tourists actually see during a visit to India ? |
| 10 | The Review always stood outside that lay literary world , or at least emphasized its academic distinction from it , and is in fact better seen as an enterprise typical of a new phase of academic English described by Gross in the following extract : |