Example sentences of "[noun pl] see a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 2 | The explosion of smaller ‘ funky ’ labels sees a wealth of records in the clubs and record shops days after they 've been cut , not months . |
| 3 | Both Kennedy and Khrushchev appeared to have been chastened by the experience , and the next 12 months saw a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR . |
| 4 | The next few months saw a series of incidents — some petty , some serious — which kept relations tense . |
| 5 | The subsequent decades saw a growth of internationalization and multilateralism within this system until the crossroads of the 1970s and 1980s where the United States ' hegemony over the international system was interrupted . |
| 6 | The next few decades saw a number of changes of ownership with such people as John Clarke and later , John Chalk running the mill . |
| 7 | Mrs Shephard said some conservationists saw a contradiction between MAFF 's support for farming and its policies for the environment and some farmers were suspicious of the emphasis placed on green issues . |
| 8 | In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity ; Le Corbusier had novel ideas on the construction of cities and from 1922 onwards in presentations , conferences and publications he attracted a world-wide following ; and in Germany the social housing programme of the Weimar Bauhaus , directed by Gropius , was architecturally distinctive , and in Frankfurt on Main the housing estates of Ernst May attracted great interest . |
| 9 | The mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care , as witnessed by the publication since 1985 of four major reports on the topic . |
| 10 | According to Lesley Bell , director of the Joint Initiative for Community Care , funded by the ADSS and the Local Government Management Board , departments should encourage service managers to see a spell in care management as part of their career development , possibly towards a more senior post in service management . |
| 11 | More conservative writers see a tendency for power to diffuse out of government to interest group elites making policy in continuous negotiation with executive agencies , under the remit of wide ‘ enabling ’ legislation passed by the legislature and thereafter incapable of being controlled ( Lowi , 1969 ) . |
| 12 | The closure of the steel works and the declining coal mines saw a lot of unemployment in the area . |
| 13 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 14 | When Americans see a band like U2 , they assume they are English because they speak English . |
| 15 | RETURNING to Anfield tomorrow means a great deal to Kenny Dalglish , but I 'll be surprised if the players see a flicker of emotion in those tense last moments in the dressing room . |
| 16 | There was an immediate squealing from inside , like a horde of piglets seeing a trough of scraps , and the door was pulled open , revealing a little red-nosed maid and a tumble of children . |
| 17 | Overall , the money markets saw an ebbing of confidence in the United States dollar and a slight improvement in prospects for the German mark , while sterling ended the year close to where it had started . |
| 18 | Residents saw a number of men walk towards Rovers ' Twerton Park ground in Bath just before the fire was discovered , Winchester Crown Court heard . |
| 19 | The constitutional authorities see a transmission of orders from the many to the controlling few in the government whereby votes inserted at one end of the system become popular public policies and laws at the other . |
| 20 | Occasionally a distant thudding is heard but , if too far away , one has to be equipped with binoculars to see a group of horsemen galloping through the sea spray . |