Example sentences of "see a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 2 | erm we have seen a gradual recovery in the last ten days . |
| 3 | However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer . |
| 4 | I have never seen a male manager in tears . |
| 5 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
| 6 | He had seen a thoughtful look in her eyes . |
| 7 | He has seen a certain facility in my work for grading and assembling the facts . |
| 8 | Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users . |
| 9 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 10 | This should be translated : I personally , off the top of my head sitting in my study , never having visited the Arctic , never having seen a polar bear in the wild , and having been educated in classical literature and theology , have not so far managed to think of a reason why polar bears might benefit from being white . |
| 11 | The past decade has seen a major increase in the number of aspiring musicians wishing to incorporate the rigours and discipline of formalised training into their playing . |
| 12 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
| 13 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 14 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 15 | We have seen a definite increase in sales . ’ |
| 16 | Youth workers in Leeds have also seen a sharp increase in the number of 17-year-olds in custody . |
| 17 | The agreement was a diplomatic success for China , which had seen a sharp reduction in its contacts with Western countries since the Tiananmen square massacre of June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 18 | As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets . |
| 19 | This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience . |
| 20 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 21 | In common with most other professional bodies the Institute has seen a substantial increase in the rate of growth of complaints against members in recent years ; in 1991 , we received 20% more complaints than in 1990 . |
| 22 | The period since the end of the Second World War has seen a substantial increase in the proportion of married women engaged in paid work . |
| 23 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 24 | The postwar period has seen a great rise in ethnicity ; starting in the 1950s with areas peripheral to France and Spain and continuing in the 1960s with Britain 's ‘ Celtic Fringe ’ . |
| 25 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 26 | Seen a wee skirt in Miss Selfridge . |
| 27 | The late seventeenth century had seen a new departure in philosophic enquiry ; philosophers abandoned metaphysical speculations and tried to pursue their studies in a scientific spirit . |
| 28 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't seen a single book in the house , not one . ’ |
| 30 | just as the reduced level of import controls during the post Second World War period saw a substantial increase in world trade , so the increasingly liberal attitude to capital controls during the 1980s has seen a marked increase in cross-border investment — both to establish new factories and to engage in takeovers of existing firms . |