Example sentences of "[noun] see a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have to be an anthropological genius to see a spiralling behaviour pattern here . |
| 2 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 3 | Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes . |
| 4 | Feargal McSorley from BAT said : ‘ Many of those who attended Tuesday 's performance are involved in drama groups within their school or youth club , so of course they are delighted to get the opportunity to see a modern classic being staged by the very talented opera company . ’ |
| 5 | The lucky denizens of East Anglia are being given a rare opportunity to see a magnificent selection of 16th century drawings loaned form the British Museum 's great collection , which is only occasionally exhibited to the general public . |
| 6 | The opportunity to see a semantic net and dynamically generate outlines from it may help authors mold the desired document . |
| 7 | Everyone raised their heads to see a young hedgehog standing before the Lord Mayor . |
| 8 | To give Perdita a break , Luke took her away the following Saturday to see a high goal match at the famous Hurlingham Club which left her speechless with wonder , then on to Buenos Aires to an English production of The Merchant of Venice throughout most of which she slept . |
| 9 | In melancholia , as observed in some patients , Freud sees a similar introjection of the object , where the lost loved object is introjected , and the ego then has two parts . |
| 10 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 11 | The shepherd hides , the night comes , and in the moonlight the shepherd sees a little fox that comes trotting from the desert , looks right , looks left and heads straight towards the milk , which he laps up , and disappears into the desert again . |
| 12 | Security at Tern Hill barracks , near Market Drayton , Shropshire , was increased after two guards saw a suspicious figure in woods near the perimeter fence . |
| 13 | In the triples , the Prestwick side saw a great fightback just fail to take them to the final . |
| 14 | Irenaeus saw a key word in this — anakepbalaiosis — which in the English translation means ‘ to unite all things ’ . |
| 15 | Looking down , horrified , Penny saw a tall man who she guessed was Farmer Bolsover standing at the foot of the tree , with a black-and-white sheepdog by his side . |
| 16 | All but six of the 23 unit trust sectors saw a net inflow of funds during the month , with the top spots taken by UK Growth , with a rise of £86 million , and the Far East sector , excluding Japan , up by £85 million . |
| 17 | The years of the boom saw a phenomenal explosion of trade . |
| 18 | Since there were 32 subjects , four subjects saw a given sequence . |
| 19 | During his youth , Barbarossa saw a rapid increase in the number of monasteries , considerable development of learning , scientific and intellectual skills , and the beginning of cathedral schools , which were soon to blossom into universities . |
| 20 | Bernice saw a little creature run in front of them . |
| 21 | The last decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries saw a major attempt at moral restructuring which had its effects both in legislation and in the tone of public life . |
| 22 | The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a remarkable bout of church building , fuelled by the great split in 1843 when 451 out of a total of 1,203 ministers left to form the Free Church of Scotland . |
| 23 | Ballantyne Cashmere saw a satisfactory increase in sales , in both the cashmere and clothing sectors . |
| 24 | Though they are neither statist nor paternalist , the authors see a larger role for democratic central and local government in the reduction of urban poverty . |
| 25 | Sadness intensifies the perceptions of the eyes so that the inner eyes see a new form of beauty like Rimbaud or like the deaf Beethoven or the blind Homer and Milton . |
| 26 | Today they fly south to see a seventh-century Buddha statue and Buddhist temple before boarding a flight to Hong Kong , where the prince will stay for three days while the princess flies home . |
| 27 | ‘ Michael Crawford takes his induction into the ways of the world with his usual incredulous gape , ’ wrote Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , adding cautiously , ‘ It is a pity to see a young and promising actor always playing the same role , though he is undoubtedly quite good at it . ’ |
| 28 | DAY 4 : Time for last minute shopping or perhaps a visit to the Rijksmuseum to see the Night Watch by Rembrandt or the Van Gogh Museum to see a vast array of the master 's work . |
| 29 | 5.52am : Cheshire fire brigade is alerted to the fire at ICI 's Lostock site and two fire engines arrive at the scene to see a 1,000 metre smoke plume coming from the building and flames shooting from vents on the roof . |
| 30 | I shall be going with Oleg to see a new Russian opera at the Round House , so there . ’ |