Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same period , investment dropped by a quarter , and some sectors , such as machine tools and forgings , have seen a 30% to 40% fall in domestic orders . |
| 2 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 3 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 4 | Well seen a jar of Maxwell House |
| 5 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In a Parliamentary debate on wages councils Ms Eagle claimed that their abolition would see a return to poverty pay . |
| 7 | North Street , Ulster Street , William Street and the town centre are most likely to be affected between 9am and 6pm but other areas may see a reduction in water pressure . |
| 8 | I could see a sort of Army bed . |
| 9 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
| 10 | First , Nicholas Budgen , the somewhat maverick right-wing Tory MP , said on 5 December 1984 when receiving the Spectator Backbencher-of-the-Year Award , ‘ My hope is that this Parliament will see a restoration of Cabinet government . ’ |
| 11 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 15 | It' certainly nice to see a bit of Lukic criticism in the group . |
| 16 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The most likely scenario is that we will continue to see a surge of Ketamine experimentation fuelled by sensationalist media articles and the renewed enthusiasm for quasi-psychedelics prompted by Ecstasy that has overtaken us in recent years . |
| 18 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |
| 19 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
| 20 | And it was not Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery who once stated that : ‘ I once saw a bowler in Australia thunder to the wicket and bowl a flatout underarm to the batsman . |
| 21 | March also saw a Seminar at Hanover House for careers staff in universities . |
| 22 | There he saw a pair of motor torpedo boats tied up at one of the quays and decided to attack . |
| 23 | She saw a look of surprise pass over his features . |
| 24 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 25 | On July 15 , 1927 he saw a kind of Peterloo massacre in Vienna . |
| 26 | Ahead of them , as her eyes adjusted , Jessica saw a mountain of cut grass , in a high-sided pen affair , a concrete floor-space walled in with wooden planks , thick as railway sleepers . |
| 27 | [ In those days , if you were a witch you were safe as long as you kept away from the common people : once I saw a group of villagers spread-eagle a warlock , drive a stake through his heart and bury him beneath a crossroads gibbet . ] |
| 28 | However , the Supreme Court in Aérospatiale , like the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz , saw a place for comity analysis , as was urged upon it by several of the briefs including that of the United Kingdom Government . |
| 29 | LEADING scorer Paul Wilkinson , who saw a move to Blackburn collapse last year , yesterday insisted : ‘ I made the right choice in joining Middlesbrough when I left Watford . ’ |
| 30 | The former saw a move from Alexandra Palace to the BBC 's new studios at Lime Grove which were bigger , and equipped with the new generation of videotape machines . |