Example sentences of "year see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity ; Le Corbusier had novel ideas on the construction of cities and from 1922 onwards in presentations , conferences and publications he attracted a world-wide following ; and in Germany the social housing programme of the Weimar Bauhaus , directed by Gropius , was architecturally distinctive , and in Frankfurt on Main the housing estates of Ernst May attracted great interest . |
| 2 | These years saw the growth of tension in Europe , with the rise of an aggressive Germany under Hitler , and in the Far East , where Japan was exerting continues pressure on China ( CORE , pp. 40–43 ) . |
| 3 | Director of The Media Lab , Nicholas Negroponte , forecasts that interactive media ( next year sees the launch of Commodore Dynamic Total Vision and Compact Disc Interactive ) will mean that future generations are likely to regard our media decades as an epoch of inertia . |
| 4 | We are currently witnessing the expansion of Satellite Television in Britain — providing more choice of channels , and this year sees the introduction of Stereo TV broadcasts . |
| 5 | This year saw a change of venue for Convocation 's Annual Dinner ; after several years of requests from the Students ' Union that the facilities at Castle Irwell be considered , it was agreed to accept the Students ' Union 's offer . |
| 6 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |