Example sentences of "[verb] see [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 2 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 3 | The White House spokeswoman , Dee Dee Myers , said Mr Clinton would ‘ make one of the most important economic statements this country has seen in a decade ’ in his speech to Congress . |
| 4 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 5 | must comply with ES policy on standards of appearance which requires everyone , regardless of location , to present a clean and tidy appearance and , in particular , to dress in a business-like way ( in general , this should be similar to the standards you would expect to see in a bank or building society ) . |
| 6 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 7 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 8 | Criteria for inclusion of patients were ( i ) a new pulmonary infiltrate seen on a chest radiograph that had been taken on or within 24 h of admission and ( ii ) one of these features : cough , temperature greater than 37.8°C , or subjective dyspnoea . |
| 9 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 10 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
| 11 | The one reduces theology to the Christian 's ‘ way of looking at things ’ , makes evangelism just an open-ended dialogue and articulates faith in a way which previous generations would have seen as a denial of the faith , in need of an answer itself . |
| 12 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 13 | George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde . |
| 14 | It was as if we were thought of as an extension of a civil service in which the expression of contentious opinions would be frowned upon and whistle blowing seen as a crime . |
| 15 | No , I think she 's gone to see about a divorce . ’ |
| 16 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 17 | The use of the mouth to caress and suck the genitals of either sex is more likely to produce disgust in some people , and is treated by many who indulge in oral sex as a ‘ problem ’ , an activity they have learned to see as a deviation from normal sexual activity . |
| 18 | ’ How else will you ever get to see inside a Novablast Liner ? ’ |
| 19 | On St Valentine 's day ( 14 February ) viewers with sets that can receive the Prestel teletext service will be able to vote on which ending they prefer to see to a Valentine love story . |
| 20 | Computer-aided design then becomes seen as a threat rather than a design aid . |
| 21 | When people speak of doubt , sooner or later medical images pop up as doubt becomes seen as a sickness of faith . |
| 22 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 23 | Well something else I 've seen at a car boot . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 26 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 27 | " It 's worst stoppage ah 've seen for a bit , " said Mr Bailes . |
| 28 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 29 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 30 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |