Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent historians of institutions have seen Anselm 's period as archbishop as a turning point in the relations between England and the papacy . |
| 2 | Encouragingly the past couple of months have seen an upturn in measured revenues . |
| 3 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 4 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 5 | It is in this area that a classic example of planners failing to see what contribution women are making occurred . |
| 6 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 7 | There it rests today with all its wartime equipment on display , and every year thousands of visitors come to see it and the twenty-minute film that was made of its capture . |
| 8 | Thousands of visitors come to see the world famous collection of thirty-eight follies in the landscape gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire . |
| 9 | But except for the very largest corporations with the most extensive resources , the majority of organisations have seen the wisdom — and overall cost-benefit — of bringing in outside experts when required . |
| 10 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 11 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 12 | The current generation of editors prefers to see this maturity exemplified in the ‘ final versions ’ produced during Shakespeare 's later years . |
| 13 | ( A number of writers have seen ‘ projection ’ as involved in the problem of masculinity , and have suggested that men may sometimes project their own fears of such things as emotional intimacy on to women , who are then seen as ‘ bad ’ because they cause these problems . ) |
| 14 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 15 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 16 | WE 'VE got a total of FIFTEEN PAIRS of tickets to win to see The Best of Torvill and Dean at Wembley Arena , Birmingham NIA or Cardiff Ice Rink . |
| 17 | The Committee on the Safety of Medicines wants to see if warnings issued this year are adequate , the Department of Health said last night . |
| 18 | The result of others having seen it ? |
| 19 | It is hardly surprising that a number of commentators wish to see an agreement with the banks on what assurances they can give , before the ED becomes a standard . |
| 20 | But a lot of women tend to see Christmas through because there is pressure on them to keep the family together . |