Example sentences of "[noun] see a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ordinary cinema goer sees a lot of glamour in directing and producing and God knows what else , but you you really postman |
| 2 | The subsequent decades saw a growth of internationalization and multilateralism within this system until the crossroads of the 1970s and 1980s where the United States ' hegemony over the international system was interrupted . |
| 3 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 4 | Like many other tourist attractions , the Talyllyn saw a drop in traffic during the difficult 1992 season ; but the railway is working hard to meet the challenge . |
| 5 | Foreign correspondents who visited polling stations in Havana saw a number of ballot papers marked ‘ No ’ , spoiled in other ways or left blank , although these were not a majority . |
| 6 | The two years before the war saw a return of prosperity , yet in the year before July 1914 over 23 per cent of insured men claimed benefit . |
| 7 | In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity ; Le Corbusier had novel ideas on the construction of cities and from 1922 onwards in presentations , conferences and publications he attracted a world-wide following ; and in Germany the social housing programme of the Weimar Bauhaus , directed by Gropius , was architecturally distinctive , and in Frankfurt on Main the housing estates of Ernst May attracted great interest . |
| 8 | According to Lesley Bell , director of the Joint Initiative for Community Care , funded by the ADSS and the Local Government Management Board , departments should encourage service managers to see a spell in care management as part of their career development , possibly towards a more senior post in service management . |
| 9 | The parliamentary Select Committee on Education saw a need for clarification and a more analytical approach , but the call for a national advisory body was rejected by the government . |
| 10 | More conservative writers see a tendency for power to diffuse out of government to interest group elites making policy in continuous negotiation with executive agencies , under the remit of wide ‘ enabling ’ legislation passed by the legislature and thereafter incapable of being controlled ( Lowi , 1969 ) . |
| 11 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 12 | Last Wednesday saw a group of fashion journalists board the Wexford train . |
| 13 | The closure of the steel works and the declining coal mines saw a lot of unemployment in the area . |
| 14 | Ahead of them , as her eyes adjusted , Jessica saw a mountain of cut grass , in a high-sided pen affair , a concrete floor-space walled in with wooden planks , thick as railway sleepers . |
| 15 | Bathsheba saw a kind of rainbow in the air , and gasped . |
| 16 | Councillors were flown to France to see a PWR in operation , to Torness to see how luxurious the workers , accommodation could be — an attraction to keep them on site and out of trouble . |
| 17 | It 's always a nice sight to see a line of washing blowing . |
| 18 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 19 | Folly saw a glimpse of gold , and something that sparkled , then caught her breath as he slipped a narrow band on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 20 | RETURNING to Anfield tomorrow means a great deal to Kenny Dalglish , but I 'll be surprised if the players see a flicker of emotion in those tense last moments in the dressing room . |
| 21 | On the way back to Earth , they were just about to begin their final descent when Gedanken saw a flash of light in the distance . |
| 22 | Visitors to the town 's Botanic Centre at Acklam saw a display of enviro-art created by Acklam Grange School . |
| 23 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 24 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 25 | This year saw a change of venue for Convocation 's Annual Dinner ; after several years of requests from the Students ' Union that the facilities at Castle Irwell be considered , it was agreed to accept the Students ' Union 's offer . |
| 26 | The decision see a reduction in development costs to $1.2 billion from the original estimate of $2 billion . |
| 27 | Claudia had just time to see a sign in gold and red before they turned into a cobbled yard . |
| 28 | It was not common at that time to see a soldier at home in Britain wearing parachute wings , for despite the Parachute Regiment — a newcomer to the army 's Order of Battle — having mounted raids in France and Italy , and having taken part , with heavy casualties , in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns , airborne forces did not have a very noticeable public profile before the days of Normandy and Arnhem . |
| 29 | Robyn sees a roadsign to West Wallsbury , the area in which J. Pringle & Sons is situated , and gratefully follows it . |
| 30 | It might be that the traveller after a prolonged deadlock sees a picture of Bali on a magazine cover as he is walking past a newspaper stand , thinks ‘ I must go there ’ , the decision is made , and from then on he never wavers . |