Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he had seen violence at first hand . |
| 2 | This tendency to see alternatives as second best , it is argued , inhibits decisions . |
| 3 | Poland sees Council as first step to membership . |
| 4 | Poland sees Council as first step to membership . |
| 5 | I usually flick back to see whats on next — but forgot . |
| 6 | Graham stayed until January 1966 and saw Palace to Second Division maturity and stability . |
| 7 | It was good to see references at last to what I had always understood to be the correct meaning of hostage ( April 27th ) — that is , ‘ a person given to another as a pledge ’ ( Oxford dictionary ) . |
| 8 | In Turkey they are not officially recognised as a distinct ethnic group but called ‘ mountain Turks ’ ( see story on next page ) . |
| 9 | The UN reckons it will need to get 2.2m tonnes of food from outside this year , and wants another 1.6m for the rest of black Africa ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 10 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 11 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 12 | But a scissors effect is cutting through America 's blacks ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 13 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 14 | This is at least ten times as many as to any other country ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 15 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 16 | Kwik Save 's return on capital is the envy of Britain 's supermarkets ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 17 | As I did n't want to undergo the inconvenience of surgery to remove the offending gall bladder , I opted for virtually fat free eating , with the miraculous side effect of acquiring slim hips and thighs for the first time in my adult life ( see photograph on next page ) . |
| 18 | See comments under sixth schedule Part A paragraph 5 . |
| 19 | The lobbying of America has been a curious off-the-books exercise ( see box on next page ) . |
| 20 | It seems fair to say it has ( see box on next page ) . |
| 21 | Pan Am ( see box on next page ) , Continental and Eastern have been able to stay aloft only under the protection of creditors provided by chapter 11 of America 's bankruptcy laws . |
| 22 | The tangled affairs of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) continue to damage its reputation as a bank supervisor ( see box on next page ) . |
| 23 | Morgan have AAA debt ratings from both Standard $ Poor 's and Moody 's , two big American rating agencies , Barclays Bank , Deutsche Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland are among the eight European banks in the same category ( see table on next page ) . |
| 24 | Since 1986 it has raised ¥843 billion ( $5.6 billion ) by issuing convertible bonds in Japan and warrant bonds in Europe ( see table on next page ) . |
| 25 | A recent survey of managers in Japanese industry showed worker ageing and labour shortages to be their biggest worry now , and for the remainder of the 1980s ( see table on next page ) . |
| 26 | European banks have already made big inroads into their life and general insurers ' markets ( see table on next page ) . |