Example sentences of "see a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 2 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
| 3 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
| 4 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 5 | We have n't seen a lovelier setting for golf and it is , by general acclaim , perhaps the best conditioned course in either county . |
| 6 | The regions of the north have seen a faster deindustrialization in these terms than have the regions of the south . |
| 7 | Never have I seen a happier set of fellows , and with an equal share of luck we shall not be defeated on Saturday . ’ |
| 8 | He fancied he could see a lower section at one end of the piled furniture where a horse might be able to jump the obstruction . |
| 9 | When these are compared with the word ’ river ’ and its definition ( which might contain words like ’ stream ’ , ’ water ’ , ’ flow ’ , etc. ) , we can immediately see a greater overlap with the geographical definition of ’ bank ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps we shall see a greater concentration on drift-net fishing for scientific research , as has happened with Japanese ‘ research whaling ’ in Antarctica . |
| 11 | The fellow did not seem to understand me , for he simply said again : ‘ You wo n't see a better view in the whole of England . |
| 12 | But luck was replaced by pluck and you wo n't see a finer display of it than last night . |
| 13 | Perhaps now we 'll see a happier Oval under a manager who 's prepared to clear out the old guard from ex-stalwarts down to assistant kitman . |
| 14 | This summer will see a tougher approach towards heavy goods vehicles from home and abroad . |
| 15 | It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment . |
| 16 | He sees a further shake-out of European personal computer manufacturer — with half the manufacturers disappearing in the next 18 months . |
| 17 | How state governments approach the budget deficits now facing them will determine whether the coming year sees a further round of downgrading of public authorities ' credit ratings . |
| 18 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 19 | Some commentators take a different view , seeing a broader significance in the shift from natural justice to fairness . |
| 20 | The Army may be seeing a smaller throughput of students , but its four core course levels remain and , ironically , new courses are constantly being introduced to meet changing needs . |
| 21 | Over 2,000 people passed through the museum during its three month opening period in 1992 , so we are encouraged and look forward to seeing a larger number of people pass through during the six month opening period in 1993 . |
| 22 | Elderly people , with those in later middle age , are more likely to be shocked or outraged by sexual practices which they consider undesirable — and tend to see a wider range of sexual practices as such . |
| 23 | They are nevertheless pleased not to see a greater erosion of their support after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the virtual disappearance of Communist parties in the West . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it possible your uncle would be pleased to see a closer association between you ? ’ she demanded suspiciously . |
| 25 | David Mills says that there was increasing pressure in the early Seventies to see a higher percentage of waste materials incinerated . |
| 26 | Instead , we would like to see a clearer indication of the circumstances in which car use can be reduced through different shopping patterns . |
| 27 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 28 | However , although the Labour Party may want to see a stronger House of Commons , there is no wish to revive parliamentary government . |
| 29 | First , they must want to see a larger number of small farms ( at present they do n't ) and this means discouraging land management by large institutions . |
| 30 | He stared towards the point where the light had been , wanting to see a darker shape on darkness . |