Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 2 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 3 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 4 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen a cross-reference with British Army chaplains in the military documentation file , ’ Ilse said . |
| 6 | Spokesman Song Jian noted that areas affected by acid rain had seen a fall in agricultural production , devastation of the environment and serious economic losses . |
| 7 | THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it . |
| 8 | He shut his eyes for a moment , but not before Kate had seen a flicker of private anguish . |
| 9 | The past six months have also seen a flurry of administrative guidance , including arbitrary changes in accounting rules designed to prevent institutions from selling shares at a loss or even recognising their diminished value in their books . |
| 10 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 11 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 12 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 13 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 14 | It 's only common sense , but I 've seen a lot of hard-earned cash parted with in the pursuit of instrument-enhanced choppery and there just ai n't no such thing . |
| 15 | The years since the 1978 Act have seen a succession of inner city initiatives . |
| 16 | Under the ‘ Fisher-Clark ’ hypothesis , industrialized countries have seen a progression from Primary employment ( agriculture , forestry , fishing and mining ) to Secondary employment ( industrial activity in manufacturing and construction ) and in turn to Tertiary employment ( services including distribution , transport , finance and public services ) . |
| 17 | We 'll cut across and let you see a bit of inland Sardinia . ’ |
| 18 | He could see a bundle of checked cloth , an old blanket perhaps , an oil drum and , a little apart from the rest , a floating shoe . |
| 19 | Similarly , France had to accept some relaxation in its position or risk seeing the five go ahead by themselves : the latter option would undoubtedly see a reduction in French influence as well as the likelihood of the five soliciting British membership . |
| 20 | She could see a sliver of white shirt , the braided collar of his black jacket , a star on his epaulette , the hand that rested along his crossed knee . |
| 21 | The next election will see a wave of Tory propaganda hit the province and , unless things change , there will be no one there to challenge it . |
| 22 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 23 | They could see a difference between imperialist war and imperialist peace , and they fervently believed that , even short of the revolution , their own actions might be capable of preventing another Great War . |
| 24 | Look along the rows of machinery at any farm show and you 'll see a lot of professionally-made equipment . |
| 25 | Cos I can see a lot of fucking shit happening . |
| 26 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 27 | Then if Mr Major takes a cool look at why Mrs Thatcher was overthrown , why he became Prime Minister in 1990 , and why he came so near to defeat in 1992 , he will see a cycle of excessive boom , high inflation and then prolonged recession . |
| 28 | He says that when he twists ice out of its plastic container , the ice being extremely cold and dry , he sees a flash of blue-white light as the cubes shatter into pieces . |
| 29 | I 'm currently making frequent trips to Poland , and there one sees a type of early capitalism developing that has a certain charm like Visconti 's movies of the Fifties . |
| 30 | ‘ . But this is not invariably the case ; Robarchek , for example , sees a push for individual autonomy among the Semai and Overing similarly stresses the value of autonomy among the Piaroa . |