Example sentences of "[adj] see an [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision …
2 It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies .
3 Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities .
4 The second half of May 1990 saw an increase in tension in Sind between ethnic Sindhis and Muhajirs , Indian Moslem migrants who had settled in the province after Indian partition in 1947 .
5 The figures suggest that the 1980s saw an increase in income inequality and a strengthening of class divisions .
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