Example sentences of "[art] [adj] see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 2 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 3 | The English saw the coronation of Charles VII at Reims as a considerable threat to their authority . |
| 4 | The 1890s saw the triumph of megalomania as size took over and passengers and tracks increased in number . |
| 5 | The 1900s saw the opening of a number of new centres and missions for the deaf , among them Bury , West Ham , Plymouth and Chester ( although the latter had first been meeting at Stockport from 1889 onwards ) . |
| 6 | In Lonsdale 's view , the 1790s saw a reaction against women writers . |
| 7 | I stood up , the better to see the state of the causeway , and made some rapid calculations . |
| 8 | The 1690s saw the end of the formal representation of the shroud in funerary sculpture with the commissioning in 1694 of the Catesby monument at Whiston , Northamptonshire . |
| 9 | The 1970s saw a return to a nationally more confident mood , with Amis fully established as a novelist and Philip Larkin as a poet , both of them roundly disdainful of foreign fads , and with the new drama of Tom Stoppard openly contemptuous of an intelligentsia once content to borrow its values from sources as alien and unassimilable as Lenin and James Joyce . |
| 10 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 11 | It should be noted that the 1970s saw a trend on the part of the ‘ nationals ’ to decentralize their operations by forming autonomous regional organizations and promoting regional brands . |
| 12 | Ostpolitik dates from 1969 and the 1970s saw a resurgence of anti-Americanism in Germany . |
| 13 | The American states that decriminalised marijuana during the 1970s saw no divergence in the consumption of the drug from that in neighbouring states which continued to prohibit it . |
| 14 | Admittedly , for optimistic technocrats at least , the 1970s saw the beginning of a new technological revolution which , it was hoped , would refuel the flagging machine , create new jobs and improve the quality of life . |
| 15 | The 1970s saw the beginning of serious attempts to develop remedial services in local authorities . |
| 16 | The 1970s saw the beginning of serious and substantial attempts to understand and improve the financial reporting practices of public sector organizations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 19 | The Fifties saw the evolution of both points of view . |
| 20 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 21 | The last two years of the Eighties saw a glut of products which aimed to fight the ageing process by boosting the skin 's metabolism , thus enabling it to carry out its own regenerative programme more effectively . |
| 22 | When cash ran out , there was credit , and the 1920s saw the development of credit by hire-purchase , or buying by instalments . |
| 23 | There was a direct link between the construction industry and the automobile industry , as the 1920s saw the building of a network of highways throughout the nation . |
| 24 | For at least one of these anecdotes he had a written source ; he was not the first to see the confrontation between Clovis and Alaric in religious terms . |
| 25 | Sadly the 1950's saw the withdrawal of through services to Marylebone and locals succumbed in 1963 . |
| 26 | At first , this might seem beneficial as the 1990s see a return of the excellent conditions for world agriculture that prevailed in the 1950s . |
| 27 | The former saw a move from Alexandra Palace to the BBC 's new studios at Lime Grove which were bigger , and equipped with the new generation of videotape machines . |
| 28 | The 1930s saw the beginning of the development of a primarily student/intellectual sub-culture in which Marxism gradually became the prevalent ideology . |
| 29 | The government in the 1930s saw the BUF as a nuisance which needed to be watched , but which was felt to have little impact on wider society and which suffered from grave internal weaknesses . |
| 30 | • : The 1930s saw the demise of the overly modest bathing costume , and the reason was sunbathing , not bathing . |