Example sentences of "to see an [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
2 | Pannell Kerr Forster 's Tony Foreman cautioned that it was difficult to see an exit route from property zone trusts and wealthy clients were inclined to put £40,000 in the BES before considering such schemes . |
3 | Well I would n't like to see an exam system which was entirely multiple choice questions for just that reason . |
4 | In the summer of 1846 Charlotte took me to see an eye doctor in Manchester . |
5 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
6 | Branson had arranged to see an advertising agency about Oldfield producing music for a commercial for Dulux paint . |
7 | Dr Caroline Jackson , MEP , said that the European Parliament would prefer to see an environment agency as opposed to the ‘ network ’ suggested by the DoE . |
8 | If you were to see an adult goat jump like this , it would usually mean that it was in a desperate situation . |
9 | Or is it all an illusion , a phantasm derived from mere figures , a figment of journalistic imagination , an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly , and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one ? |
10 | I 'm going over to Lancaster next week , and I 've fixed to see an archaeologist chap at the university . |
11 | John Keegan of the IDA Automotive and Engineering Department said the lesson of the Raybestos Manhattan affair was that , while the people of Ireland supported the IDA , the same people ‘ were not prepared to see an industry right on their doorstep ’ . |
12 | At this point it is necessary to ask on what grounds socialists would wish to see an investment project of this nature ( i.e. unprofitable in the face of market competition ) supported within the framework of investment planning . |