Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges for prescriptions have seen the sharpest rise — an increase of no less than 1,425 per cent between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 2 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 3 | Recent historians of institutions have seen Anselm 's period as archbishop as a turning point in the relations between England and the papacy . |
| 4 | Encouragingly the past couple of months have seen an upturn in measured revenues . |
| 5 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 6 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 7 | It is in this area that a classic example of planners failing to see what contribution women are making occurred . |
| 8 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 9 | There it rests today with all its wartime equipment on display , and every year thousands of visitors come to see it and the twenty-minute film that was made of its capture . |
| 10 | Thousands of visitors come to see the world famous collection of thirty-eight follies in the landscape gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | But except for the very largest corporations with the most extensive resources , the majority of organisations have seen the wisdom — and overall cost-benefit — of bringing in outside experts when required . |
| 12 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 13 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 14 | The current generation of editors prefers to see this maturity exemplified in the ‘ final versions ’ produced during Shakespeare 's later years . |
| 15 | ( A number of writers have seen ‘ projection ’ as involved in the problem of masculinity , and have suggested that men may sometimes project their own fears of such things as emotional intimacy on to women , who are then seen as ‘ bad ’ because they cause these problems . ) |
| 16 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 17 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 18 | WE 'VE got a total of FIFTEEN PAIRS of tickets to win to see The Best of Torvill and Dean at Wembley Arena , Birmingham NIA or Cardiff Ice Rink . |
| 19 | The Committee on the Safety of Medicines wants to see if warnings issued this year are adequate , the Department of Health said last night . |
| 20 | The result of others having seen it ? |
| 21 | It is hardly surprising that a number of commentators wish to see an agreement with the banks on what assurances they can give , before the ED becomes a standard . |
| 22 | Thus , those who led the NF in the 1970s had , in many cases , a background in the most nutty forms of postwar extremism , despite claims to have seen the democratic light after these youthful indiscretions . |
| 23 | But a lot of women tend to see Christmas through because there is pressure on them to keep the family together . |
| 24 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 25 | Fainting derbies are planned , with owners competing to see whose goat can faint fastest — premium fainters spend most of their lives horizontal . |
| 26 | The set of changes by which during the last 700 years or so , for example : /ei : / became /i : / in words like see /i : / became/ai : / in words like time / / became / / in words like bone |
| 27 | This relational emphasis is found in the repetition of the word eye itself in abstract nouns implying perception ( aspect , sign , glitter , ripple , glance , etc ) , and in verbs like see , mark , and look . |
| 28 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 29 | We have extensive data on the delays experienced by patients waiting to see a pain specialist . |
| 30 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |