Example sentences of "[noun sg] see a [noun] [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 | I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years . |
| 3 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 4 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's always a nice sight to see a line of washing blowing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The decision see a reduction in development costs to $1.2 billion from the original estimate of $2 billion . |
| 14 | Claudia had just time to see a sign in gold and red before they turned into a cobbled yard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By the seventeenth century , the use of herbs and essential oils in medicine saw a decline in favour of the newly emerging chemical drugs . |
| 18 | Where the early view saw a work of art as the sum total of its devices , the later view took account of the fact that literary devices themselves were subject to the automatization of perception . |
| 19 | The Malesian region saw a rise in navigation and seamanship unrivalled elsewhere until recent times , so that by 1500 BC , or earlier , the south-west Pacific had been reached . |