Example sentences of "see [prep] [det] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps another reason is that the book may be seen as another step in the loss of accounting 's innocence . |
| 2 | That he was not Jewish was seen as another point in his favour . |
| 3 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 4 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 5 | It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer . |
| 6 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll sing you a song , mates , ’ yelled back Bobby hoarsely , ‘ I 'll sing it from the roof-tops when we see an end not only of this strike but of every useless , time-wasting ; pointless strike we 've ever seen in this country in the last half-dozen years . |
| 8 | The condition , which is relatively common in continental Europe , has not been seen on this scale in the UK since the 1920s . |
| 9 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 10 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 11 | In the centre of the village green stood a black-spired church , nothing more than a tower and nave hastily thrown together , the type you can see in any village in England or France . |
| 12 | As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act . |
| 13 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 14 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 15 | there is much to see from any window in England if only the viewer is prepared to try and understand it . |
| 16 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 17 | No chance of getting any laundry done unless we meet some tribe of washerwomen waiting for custom outside one of those zinc shacks like we saw in that village in Provence do you remember ? |
| 18 | And see about that bomb in ta , in er you know the Prime Minister 's place ? |