Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 2 | Perkin had not long before seen Olympia lying dead at Nolan 's feet . |
| 3 | By the same token , we have to keep a watch on dates so as to see that this Eleanor is not Eleanor of Aquitaine , but her great-greatgranddaughter , Eleanor of Castile , wife of Edward I of England . |
| 4 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 5 | In order to investigate the operation of such constraints , we will first look at some theoretical models which cast light on the various problems involved in the government-management " game " , before turning to the next section to consider some features of the control structure in the UK , so as to see some practical illustrations of the points . |
| 6 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 7 | Ingleborough — the ‘ Monarch of the Dales ’ — is a noble hill , especially when seen from Whernside 's Twistleton Scars across the deep trench of Chapel-le-Dale to the west , with its features etched against a clear , blue sky ; then it looks as fine a peak as any in the country . |
| 8 | Over most of enclosed England , the small fields were hedged around with hawthorn fences , more or less thickly interspersed with ash and elm — the great trees of the Midlands — which when they were full grown gave the appearance of an almost continuous wood , especially when seen from an eminence . |
| 9 | ‘ Especially when seen through a glass , distantly . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , perhaps the largest myth to destroy is the ‘ poor relation ’ status that vocabulary has , especially when seen in comparison with grammar . |
| 11 | She felt rather than saw him gazing round , trying to work out what had happened . |
| 12 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 13 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 14 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 15 | If they receive much less description in fiction , it is because they are sensed rather than seen . |
| 16 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Rather than seeing containment as that which pre-empts and defeats transgression we need to see both containment and transgression as potentially productive processes . |
| 18 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 19 | Cohen stresses therefore , the collective response as central to delinquency , rather than seeing such behaviour as an individual response to the failure to achieve middle-class goals , as Merton argued . |
| 20 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 21 | Rather than seeing the exploitation of the peasantry as the means to industrialisation Bukharin insisted that ‘ a qualitative increase in the productivity of national labour , and a determined fight against non-productive expenditure … are the main sources of accumulation . ’ |
| 22 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 24 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 25 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 26 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 27 | Rather than seeing child abuse as an exceptional problem requiring an exceptional response , and hence a qualitatively different practice , we should see it as part of child care and hence child care practice . |
| 28 | The idea that people operate ‘ strategies ’ in which they assess a range of options , and act to maximize their opportunities , has become an increasingly important insight in historical work on the family , and one which accords an active role to human beings in constructing their own lives , rather than seeing individuals at the mercy of large scale social forces ( Morgan , 1985 , p. 175 ) . |
| 29 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 30 | The result of seeing the difference in women 's experiences in positive rather than negative terms — seeing women as having something to offer philosophy rather than seeing them as inferior or aberrant versions of a male norm — is that the contours of familiar conceptual landscapes begin to change . |