Example sentences of "[num] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1808 saw a revival of religion in the area around Portadown and remarkable open-air meetings were held in Portadown itself , at Mahon , Scotch Street , Derryhale , Richhill and Dawson 's Grove . |
| 2 | In Lonsdale 's view , the 1790s saw a reaction against women writers . |
| 3 | Thus 1785 saw a revolution in the copper trade . |
| 4 | The other three saw a flicker on the DI 's face . |
| 5 | Primary 5 sees a transition into the more formal setting of the Old Building with its historic traditions and architecture . |
| 6 | Ostpolitik dates from 1969 and the 1970s saw a resurgence of anti-Americanism in Germany . |
| 7 | The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a plethora of government sponsored reports which sought to influence the way in which local authorities were organised and the services that they provided . |
| 8 | The 1970s saw a return to a nationally more confident mood , with Amis fully established as a novelist and Philip Larkin as a poet , both of them roundly disdainful of foreign fads , and with the new drama of Tom Stoppard openly contemptuous of an intelligentsia once content to borrow its values from sources as alien and unassimilable as Lenin and James Joyce . |
| 9 | It should be noted that the 1970s saw a trend on the part of the ‘ nationals ’ to decentralize their operations by forming autonomous regional organizations and promoting regional brands . |
| 10 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 11 | Hambleton ( 1981 ) , for example , argues that the late 1970s saw a shift in policy towards a programme-dominated approach . |
| 12 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 13 | The end of the selfish eighties saw a groundswell of popular desire to flee the sharp competitiveness and tension of the cities to the imagined tranquillity and neighbourliness of the countryside . |
| 14 | The last two years of the Eighties saw a glut of products which aimed to fight the ageing process by boosting the skin 's metabolism , thus enabling it to carry out its own regenerative programme more effectively . |
| 15 | At first , this might seem beneficial as the 1990s see a return of the excellent conditions for world agriculture that prevailed in the 1950s . |
| 16 | The spring of 1951 saw a boycott of public transport and a general strike in Barcelona , and a strike in the mining , ship-building and steel sectors of the Basque Country . |
| 17 | Thus , while the 1950s and 1960s saw a growth in employment , they were also a period of significant delocalization and the manufacturing sector was increasingly composed of ‘ branch plants ’ . |
| 18 | The 1960s saw a disenchantment with this view , academia being seen instead to be an accomplice in the mainstream projects ( industrial , military , political ) of society . |
| 19 | The world number two saw a splash after topping his drive on La Moraleja 's 414-yard fifth hole , but the ball had only skimmed the surface and finished back on dry land . |
| 20 | It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 21 | The 1980s saw a number of reports on community care that cited low funding and poor planning and coordination of projects as being responsible for the lack of a developed community care initiative to support all people , including the elderly , in the community in their own homes . |
| 22 | Although the trends up to 1971 provided support for Marx 's view on the likely fate of the petty bourgeoisie , the 1980s saw a reversal of previous trends . |
| 23 | As the previous point suggests , the 1980s saw a decline in the direct proportion of services directly provided , whether by the extension of activity into new areas ( such as economic development ) or by the privatization of existing services . |
| 24 | The Centre Right interregnum of 1986–88 saw a dip in expenditure and a greater emphasis on the heritage and teaching of art . |