Example sentences of "see [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There 's one short answer : 1992 will indeed see the removal of trade barriers between the 12 EC states and the seven in the European Trade Association ( EFTA ) , but nothing happens until 31 December .
2 He did not see the tons of scaffolding or concrete blocks , but instead manicured lawns interspersed with narrow paths winding through lush tropical planting .
3 He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands .
4 I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way .
5 When he turned round , he would see the shower of blessing , receive the quickening power .
6 Supporters of the acts did not see the principles of state hygiene as contradicting the moral emphases of the public health movement .
7 Paradoxically , you should see the voyage of self-discovery as a shared experience , in which you seek to increase your own competence and self-confidence by means of mutually-rewarding relationships with your fellow students , your teachers and other members of college staff .
8 As for the avant-garde , we can see the development of modernism as precisely an outraged and deliberately esoteric response to the new drive towards total commodification .
9 For example , this year alone we shall see the commissioning of chemical and textile plants .
10 To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided .
11 At present , courses are run in bricklaying , painting and decorating , welding , and sheet metal fabrication , and as far as I could see the standard of work was generally very high indeed .
12 Jessamy could see the sheet of paper sticking out of his pocket .
13 From the kitchen window you can see the whole of King 's Cross station spread out underneath you : the massive iron and stone curve of the station building itself , the tatty warehouses and sheds .
14 In the products of capitalism , designed for fun , the Young Socialists would see the workings of ideology .
15 He said : ‘ We might not see the day of liberation but it will come . ’
16 Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed .
17 In the mud banks which rise ten feet or so above the water 's edge , you can see the strata of silt deposits brought down each year by the river in the days before the High Dam .
18 At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep .
19 And beyond the factory he could see the bit of wasteland where Mrs Flaherty used to keep the Famous Funfair under tarpaulins for the winter .
20 Where do you see the frontiers of chemistry at the moment ?
21 Can you see the lumps of margarine ?
22 Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers .
23 I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing .
24 We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting .
25 You can see the kind of detail you need to record .
26 Frau Hoflin , a sensible woman , old-fashioned , but not so old-fashioned that she could n't see the signs of rebellion beginning to germinate , pressed for the safest ‘ revolt ’ she could think of .
27 Heaven knows who it was who set their mind on heading for that pointy wee soul but , like most hill-walkers , once a route is planned we would sooner see the laws of physics change before our itinerary did .
28 I can still see the looks of astonishment on his friends ’ faces when they saw me , a white man , drinking out of the same glass . ’
29 The atmosphere which is evoked in the reading of the poem is one of hopelessness , of resignation , of dark depression and sadness alleviated only by the concluding couplet through which we understand that although oncoming death seems to ‘ take away ’ everything from him , his beloved still remains and can see the glimmers of life through desolation .
30 He could see the colour of Jeopardy 's eyes — brown , but tinged amber by the light .
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