Example sentences of "would see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd see a strip or two being ploughed , followed |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd see a lot more stars when Carmen hit me over the head with it . |
| 3 | you 'd see a lot more things of interest and maybe say oh I 'll take it from minus fifteen to plus fifteen . |
| 4 | I can remember when you 'd see a cloud of dust , perhaps it 'll be a mile away and this would be a flock of sheep . |
| 5 | I must admit I never thought I 'd see a tramp like that one falling in love with such a good woman as yourself ’ . |
| 6 | At the end of the case people would see a bit of film of the child sitting on the drawing-room sofa between his parents who never took their eyes from him during the interview . |
| 7 | The new year would see a disintegration of the unanimity of the DCAC 's supporters ; the committee had grave doubts about the wisdom of the PD march from Belfast to Derry , although it arranged material support and a welcoming rally for the marchers . |
| 8 | On increasing income tax , he said : ‘ One would see a change in that with the utmost regret . |
| 9 | It was an unprecedented sum for a solo album by a drummer , but Draper told his doubting colleagues that he was confident Virgin would see a return on its investment . |
| 10 | In a Parliamentary debate on wages councils Ms Eagle claimed that their abolition would see a return to poverty pay . |
| 11 | There was a fear that as such centres were validated , local colleges would see a reduction in the number of students which they would otherwise have expected to attract . |
| 12 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 13 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 14 | Semantically these quotations must appear curious to the modern reader , who would see a contradiction of terms in the notion of virtuous prejudice and who would expect the thwarting of prejudices to be a matter for praise not blame . |
| 15 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
| 16 | would see a difference but people that have always worked in here do n't notice any difference . |
| 17 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |