Example sentences of "[adv] see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are selling publishers ’ books at list prices , to the core market , and thus ensuring that publishers are able to recover their origination , only to see a mass of examples of the same book on offer elsewhere at cheaper prices . |
| 2 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 3 | Moreover , few British schools at present include private study periods on the timetable , except for the sixth form , so the teacher knows that his students can only see the sequence in breaks and before and after school , unless he allows time in his own assigned periods with them . |
| 4 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 5 | We have already seen a number of examples of this . |
| 6 | Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later . |
| 7 | Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids . |
| 8 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 9 | But we did n't watch it we just saw a couple of bits . |
| 10 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |
| 11 | Kathleen had always seen the sense of things , once they were explained . |
| 12 | I am a new member of the RNLI , only joining in 1990 spurred into action by visiting the NE coast and seeing one or two of its lifeboats … £6 annual membership is very good value and could be increased , but £20 would possibly see a decline in numbers . |
| 13 | That being so , I hardly see the need for police protection . |
| 14 | Comet 1 , a course for middle managers , has also seen the number of women attending rise from 12.5 per cent in 1990 to 19.3 per cent in 1991 . |
| 15 | At Leeds youth courts — the second busiest in the country — youth justice workers have also seen the number of appearances double since the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 16 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |
| 17 | Wood ( 1981 ) also sees the problem in terms of language environments . |
| 18 | But he also sees the need for guarantees on employment conditions there . |
| 19 | The next five years will also see the implementation of tests for seven , 11 and 14 year olds ; a shift towards ‘ on the job ’ teacher training ; and the transformation of some grant-maintained institutions into grammar schools . |
| 20 | We also saw an exhibition of paintings by Sydney Lough Thompson , one of my favourite NZ artists . |
| 21 | The Victorian period not only established the modern popular image of public houses , but also saw the involvement of specialists and well-known architects in their design . |
| 22 | The 1850s also saw the establishment of schools for the physically handicapped and the ‘ mentally defective ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Presumably whoever gives you the commissions must come here to see the kind of things you do ? ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps you have n't seen a strike for years . |
| 25 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 26 | It was clear from the reports that he was an insanely jealous man who , for example , ‘ made [ his wife ] walk with her head down so she could n't see the bulge in men 's trousers ’ . |
| 27 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 28 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 29 | But I really could n't see the sense in women wearing Armani by day and then letting someone else dress them by night . ’ |
| 30 | Today saw the culmination of months of hard training as Hugh slipped his canoe into the waters of Lough Ryan for the solo trip back to his home town . |