Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 2 | Would it not be a good thing if the Government explained to the people of Wolverhampton , perhaps even by taking an advertisement in the Express and Star , that the gross overspending has continued year after year because Wolverhampton council has seen education in terms of employing people in schools , not in terms of providing good education ? |
| 3 | A councillor member of a housing committee wanted to see information in a social services file on prospective adopting parents as she doubted their suitability as adopters . |
| 4 | The effect of excessive development on the environment in North Yorkshire , and the second on is a relationship with places like Cleveland and West Yorkshire and the need to continue to see regeneration within those areas . |
| 5 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 6 | The past decade has seen labour-shedding on a massive scale . |
| 7 | Bobo draws attention to the role of cultural groups functioning as interpretative communities in the construction of oppositional readings of films which are regarded as reactionary by a theoreticist criticism refusing to see signification as a two-way social process . |
| 8 | It is fair to say , however , that while feminist educationalists have , in recent years , become more aware of the limitations of the interventionist model , the state continues to see education as an arena where social change can be promoted . |
| 9 | The year has seen success in the development and commercialisation of a new series of fast fire glazes for the previously unavailable from less sophisticated systems . |
| 10 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
| 11 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |
| 12 | From the amount of iron signals and other factors it would soon be possible to determine if the land had seen habitation in the past . |
| 13 | Rationalisation of production has seen employment at both BSC and ICI decline rapidly . |