Example sentences of "see a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seen a lot of shit going on but I think they were impressed with home we coped with it all , ’ enthuses PD to the eager nods of Paul . |
| 2 | The nineteenth century had seen a variety of ad hoc political bodies . |
| 3 | By the time the Ashleys bought the twenty-two-room château , it had seen a variety of owners and fortunes , yet although remarkably close to the battlefront in both World Wars , had escaped any major damage . |
| 4 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 5 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 6 | Not everyone here is committed , but the majority are(I 've also seen a member of staff put his papers in . |
| 7 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 8 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 9 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 10 | Like all other areas of Great Britain which are involved in agriculture , Scotland has seen a slump of 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 12 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 13 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 14 | But first John Major 's , and now Norman Lamont 's , tenure at the Treasury has seen a resumption of a policy that is inimical to both the industry 's and the Government 's long-term interests . |
| 15 | Socially , we have seen a change of almost revolutionary proportions ; in terms of economics and economic geography , however , the pattern is less clear . |
| 16 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 17 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 18 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 19 | Born in Brittany , the son of a Jewish tailor and antique dealer , Max Jacob had seen a vision of Christ on the wall of his little room in the Rue Ravignan . |
| 20 | THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it . |
| 21 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 22 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 23 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 24 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 25 | He shut his eyes for a moment , but not before Kate had seen a flicker of private anguish . |
| 26 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 27 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 28 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 29 | Some of you may have seen a bit of these before or similar ones , but it does n't matter , because it 's worth looking at again . |
| 30 | The past six months have also seen a flurry of administrative guidance , including arbitrary changes in accounting rules designed to prevent institutions from selling shares at a loss or even recognising their diminished value in their books . |