Example sentences of "see an [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS ANNOYING as ‘ Sesame Street ’ but funnier when you 've been to Amsterdam and seen an ocean of techno heads pogo-ing like Zebedee on amphetamines . |
| 2 | Weeks argues that recent history has seen an explosion of speech surrounding sex and that the 1960s in particular ‘ experienced a decisive , qualitative escalation of the volume ’ . |
| 3 | In the distance , the adventurers can see an archway of yellow and green , with running colours and an unpleasant appearance . |
| 4 | And you could see an example of ecotourism and also check out Ametra 2001 — it 's a centre down there for the study of traditional medicine . ’ |
| 5 | The County Council , if we 're talking about Mr 's erm strategy , the County Council would have severe reservations about going down towards thirty one thousand dwellings , we 've got twenty nine thousand dwellings erm already committed er I think it would create difficulties over the period that the the structure plan er would run , would create undue tension certainly in er er in settlements across North Yorkshire , on the basis of seeing an absence of land being allocated . |
| 6 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 7 | The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision … |
| 8 | I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years . |
| 9 | The mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care , as witnessed by the publication since 1985 of four major reports on the topic . |
| 10 | It is true that there had been a steady erosion to the pre-war image of Japan as a cheap labour economy producing shoddy goods , but the 1970s saw an explosion of interest in what lessons Japan could offer advanced industrial societies . |
| 11 | Overall , the money markets saw an ebbing of confidence in the United States dollar and a slight improvement in prospects for the German mark , while sterling ended the year close to where it had started . |
| 12 | In the last section , we saw an example of turbulence suppression when stabilizing stratification was imposed . |
| 13 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |