Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground . |
| 2 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 3 | Fewer of course had seen all of it : 71 per cent , 49 per cent , 19 per cent and 5 per cent , respectively . |
| 4 | She thought that as she knew so well what her therapist would say , it was indeed a waste of money to continue seeing her . |
| 5 | Some philosophers of religion have seen God as a higher stage of this process . |
| 6 | Critics of LMS have seen it as a way of bringing about education cuts without blame being ascribed to either local or central government . |
| 7 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | In one study of primary schools , the 1918 Handbook of Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers was quoted as making only one requirement of uniformity , " the Board of Education desired to see in the teaching of public elementary schools … that each teacher shall think for himself , and work out by himself such methods of teaching as may use his powers to best advantage and best suited to the particular needs and conditions of the school " ( Kogan 1973:145 ) . |
| 9 | The only uniformity of practice that the Board of Education desires to see in the teaching of Public Elementary schools is that each teacher should think for himself and work out for himself such methods of teaching as may use his powers to the best advantage and be best suited to the particular needs and conditions of the school . |
| 10 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 11 | If the Minister of State wants to see what that is like , she should go into the City tonight and look at the number of people who are sleeping in the cold because there is no accommodation for them . |
| 12 | ‘ I was on a visit doing some coaching when I was told the President and Secretary of State wanted to see me . |
| 13 | A throne with 1,000 years of history has seen nothing like this before . |
| 14 | Yet the capricious nature of golf has seen even the mighty Ballesteros humbled in the Championship . |
| 15 | Rationalisation of production has seen employment at both BSC and ICI decline rapidly . |
| 16 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 17 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 18 | Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda . |
| 19 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 20 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the clash which everyone in boxing wants to see but it 's up to them to get back in touch with us . ’ |
| 22 | This doom he has brought upon himself ; in order to avoid seeing one thing he has , almost voluntarily , incapacitated himself from seeing at all . ’ |
| 23 | Part of being selective is that it is also necessary to simplify the world in order to try to see more clearly just what a discipline can say about aspects of the world . |
| 24 | It then went into the City to set up their own self-regulatory and we in fact went to see Mr Redwood and he was quite he was very quite blunt about it , he said well , they considered it when they were sid considering the investors compensation scheme , but the sum involved in pensions are so great , that they could not afford to underwrite a pension er a compensation fund for pensions , so therefore there 's a pension fund for for private investment , but not a pension fund er compensation fund for , for occupation . |
| 25 | Now , developments in technology have seen the introduction of a number of electronic payments schemes offering significant advantages to larger companies in particular . |
| 26 | Further , this growing number on welfare have seen their income since 1979 increase only marginally above the rise in prices , while earnings have risen substantially above the rate of inflation . |
| 27 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 28 | For government policy on mineral working see entries 1(6) ( 8 ) ( 20 ) ( 40 ) ( 48 ) . |
| 29 | The resultant ‘ Clubturf ’ , and with it the ‘ Natural ’ cricket pitch , started a quiet revolution which to date has seen about 2000 Clubturf installations at county clubs , public schools and village greens . |
| 30 | [ For opening in April 1987 of formal negotiations on this issue see pp. 35764-65 ; for background to dispute see p. 26512 ; for appointment of Bolivian consul see p. 37490 . ] |