Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 2 | Some aposematic prey that are conspicuous when seen at close quarters appear cryptic when living in family groups and viewed from a distance . |
| 3 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 4 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 5 | For example , many Westerners are indignant when seeing an Indian mahout raise high his ankus ( an iron rod with a hook at one end ) and bring it down smartly on the head of his inattentive elephant . |
| 6 | Money-dominated Zermatt is synonymous with the unreal pyramid of the Matterhorn ( which is unrecognisably ordinary when seen from Italian Cervinia , next door ) . |
| 7 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |
| 8 | Louis was a year older than the Stone boy , and the difference in age between seven and eight is quite remarkable when seen through juvenile eyes . |
| 9 | This makes the water appear chalky white when seen from an orbiting satellite . |
| 10 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 11 | The artist slips easily between human experience and the organic as seen in the works ‘ Placenta Tree ’ and ‘ Split ’ . |
| 12 | Sunrise and sunset are particularly breathtaking when seen from these summits . |
| 13 | Erm , but in the end th o only one had any impact and in general , see seeing a female professional was , I have to say , a lot more helpful than seeing male professionals . |
| 14 | The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William . |
| 15 | But these histories are more intelligible when seen as part of a whole and when it is understood that the forces that encouraged or hindered their growth were deeply rooted in the local society of which they form so characteristic a part . |
| 16 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 17 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 18 | The number of tree species with high proportions of ‘ barked ’ trees is low , but bark of a few species is pulled off in strips up to 10m long as seen in Bombax brevicuspe ( Bombacaceae ) and Lannea welwitschii ( Anacardiaceae ) . |
| 19 | Altair is flanked to either side by a fainter star , Gamma or Tarazed and Beta ( 3.7 ) ; Gamma is a K-type star , very clearly orange when seen in binoculars . |
| 20 | Iota and Delta have K-type spectra , and are clearly orange when seen through binoculars . |
| 21 | Both it and Eta have M-type spectra , and are obviously orange when seen through binoculars ; it is interesting to compare their colours , and I have often found Eta the more strongly coloured of the two , though the difference is very marginal . |
| 22 | Epsilon and Psi ( 4.4 ) are orange when seen in binoculars . |
| 23 | A common practice is to define women 's responses as moralistic and emotional while seeing those of men as rational and hard-headed . |
| 24 | For example , the caterpillar of the cinnabar moth ( Callimorpha jacobea ) resembles the flower head of its food plant ( ragwort ) from a distance but its black and yellow stripes are aposematic when seen from nearby . |
| 25 | Of course , where the money is no longer legal tender as seen with half crown coins and sixpences in R v Thompson [ 1980 ] QB 229 , or where it is being transferred because of its curiosity value ( Moss v Hancock [ 1899 ] 2 QB 111 ) , or because of its inherent value such as Krugerrands , in these circumstances " money " can be considered to be " goods " for the purposes of the statutory definition . |
| 26 | Alpha is not hard to find , because it is decidedly isolated and forms an equilateral triangle with Regulus and Pollux ; it is of type M , and very red as seen with any binoculars . |
| 27 | Ingleborough is not in view from Clapham and the near presence of the mountain , so dominant when seen from other directions , is not suspected by the many admiring and envious visitors who parade the charming byways of this most delightful of Yorkshire villages . |
| 28 | It is possible for there to be unrestricted-use three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements , but the requirements are more exacting as seen under s12 ( c ) : an unrestricted-use credit agreement which is made by the creditor under pre-existing arrangements between himself and a person ( the " supplier " ) other than the debtor in the knowledge that the credit is to be used to finance a transaction between the debtor and the supplier . |
| 29 | The bland slopes bordering and beyond the river , innocuous when seen from the train , abound in hidden secrets that yield to discovery only after a search for them . |
| 30 | That result applies still , even if the public has access to the house for purposes other than seeing exhibits , e.g. to visit the tea-shop . |