Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 2 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 3 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 4 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 5 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 6 | With that burden around us we have seen a reduction in the number of full-time officers being appointed by the union and which in turn has without any doubt had a detrimental effect upon the members who we serve . |
| 7 | The early Church , noting that this miracle took place in the wilderness , ‘ a lonely place ’ , would have seen a parallel with the feeding of the children of Israel with manna in the wilderness of the Sinai desert . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 9 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 10 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | Recent years have seen a multiplication in the number of TV channels and of communications media other than traditional terrestrial television — government pressure on broadcasters is perforce less effective than when there was only one channel . |
| 12 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 13 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 14 | Finding a style in these parts without having seen a production of the play can be a problem , but as with absurd drama , there is a lot of room for personal interpretation . |
| 15 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 16 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 17 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 18 | Even more than other industrial countries , America has seen a shift in the age distribution of poverty . |
| 19 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 20 | And a nice clean straight like you , you know , young , only seen a needle down the doctor 's — well . |
| 21 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 22 | Recently , however , we have seen a growth in the number of private registered agencies , some of which set out to provide a combination of domestic and personal help to frail elderly people . |
| 23 | We have n't even seen a photograph of the cottage . |
| 24 | The past two or three years has seen a boom in the retreat movement , especially directed retreats . |
| 25 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 26 | Maxim had n't seen an update of the list since leaving Number 10 . |
| 27 | THE Northern Ireland scene has seen an increase in the number of men wanting to make it into modelling . |
| 28 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 29 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 30 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |