Example sentences of "see [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man schooled to regard policy questions in technical terms and to see controversial matters of principle in terms of party management has been learning that he is a Tory . |
| 2 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 3 | Ah 've seen this sort of thin' in the Mediterranean , but not as erotic . ’ |
| 4 | We have already seen several examples of inconsistency in adaptation . |
| 5 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 6 | Then leaning further over to me he whispered in my ear : ‘ Did you see that crowd of shit in the streets ? |
| 7 | ‘ In late 1992 we think we might see some signs of improvement in the US or some European countries ’ . |
| 8 | It is , therefore , unwise to try and see this kind of evidence in association with rebel or enemy activities . |
| 9 | House spirits , hearth spirits , river spirits , tree spirits — in the jungle you 'll sometimes see little offerings of food in the fork of a tree . |
| 10 | Q Looking at your diary again , can you see any kind of pattern in the consequences or outcomes to these trying confrontations ? |
| 11 | Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine . |
| 12 | ‘ To be honest , I do n't see any prospect of improvement in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Although the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report did not think that concentration in brewing was a problem , the authorities do not wish to see undue erosion of competition in brewing , and that will obviously inform our assessments and judgments in future transactions . |
| 14 | At that time he was like many young men of energy and ambition who saw little prospect of self-advancement in Ireland . |
| 15 | He spoke a little stiffly , and again Jean-Paul thought he saw that flash of resentment in the eyes , there and then gone . |
| 16 | In Britain both the Vietnam war and the Reagan years saw remarkable collapses of faith in the good sense of American leadership . |
| 17 | Devising programmed sequences in general proved very much trickier for the average teacher than was perhaps originally predicted , and the variations in curricula and in the subject-matter taught in different establishments revealed as over-optimistic ( certainly in the UK ) some early prophecies , which saw great blocks of time in the average school taken up by individual work with teaching programmes . |
| 18 | There is hardly an area in the diocese where the scourge of unemployment is not biting hard , and our parishes have to do what they can for those who not only have no work , but see little prospect of employment in the future . |
| 19 | They see those practitioners of cruelty in their laboratories , those operators in the slaughter houses , as only the most extreme example of an omnipresent form of alienation which unfortunately embraces almost all human beings today . |