Example sentences of "see an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS ANNOYING as ‘ Sesame Street ’ but funnier when you 've been to Amsterdam and seen an ocean of techno heads pogo-ing like Zebedee on amphetamines . |
| 2 | Maxim had n't seen an update of the list since leaving Number 10 . |
| 3 | By lunch we had seen an all-run six for Mike Atherton . |
| 4 | When I described this to M. Bellin , the secretary at the consulate , he told me of having seen an ostrich trying to rape a donkey . |
| 5 | Unless the reading teacher has a microcomputer at home with a lot of memory , he or she is unlikely to have seen an adventure game . |
| 6 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 7 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 8 | The first half of the eighteenth century had seen an increase in trade , which was paralleled by an increase in the population . |
| 9 | NORTH ‘ We 've seen an increase in activity but people are reluctant to commit themselves , ’ says Newcastle-based Peter Miller , Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' housing spokesman . |
| 10 | The Home Office has reportedly seen an increase of more than 40 per cent in the number of young people sentenced to young offender institutions . |
| 11 | The post-war period has seen an increase in labour force participation ( see Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 12 | We 've seen an increase in orders from business units around the world and also in information supplied and requests for inclusion . ’ |
| 13 | The Government have seen an increase in prosperity throughout the United Kingdom and a sharing of both good times and bad . |
| 14 | Against the background of growing concern about migration pressures worldwide , recent years have seen an increase in cases where migrant , expatriate or alien communities have been obliged to leave en masse the countries in which they work or have settled . |
| 15 | THE Northern Ireland scene has seen an increase in the number of men wanting to make it into modelling . |
| 16 | Despite current low interest rates — which mean a low return on savings — the society has seen an increase in deposits , mirroring the trend reported in the BSA review . |
| 17 | That includes France which has seen an increase in footage of a thirty thousand square feet and we 've also got a number of sub-lets we 've indicated that erm sub-lets should pay reduces it |
| 18 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 19 | He had never , he wrote to his superiors , seen an operation so badly planned or so amateurishly organized ; ‘ at the CIA , we really do run a better show than that . ’ |
| 20 | In the meantime , I suppose you 've seen an operation performed for a dropped foot ? ’ |
| 21 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 22 | The unions might have seen an opportunity , trustees might have been appointed … ’ |
| 23 | They had seen an opportunity in the submersible pumps market that could bring enormous benefits to the oil industry in terms of cost , time and safety . |
| 24 | we had some carbonated drinks factory I said well they they asked me if I 'd go over there and I said I ca n't work in there I 'm allergic to oranges and he said oh bloody or I 've never seen an orange , do n't worry , you know it 's all chemicals ! |
| 25 | As we have seen an algorithm which prunes at point B ( Fig. 9. 2 ) can produce very similar behaviour to one which orders at these points . |
| 26 | I 've seen a lot o' different things and that like ; but I 've never seen an owd cow dragging a tumbril ! ’ |
| 27 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 28 | Have you ever seen an engine go on a coach like , kerb like that ? |
| 29 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 30 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |