Example sentences of "to see the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not have to go far to see the houses of the men of 1880 ; many of us are still living in them . |
| 2 | Calling for improvements in the way community care plans are produced , he said every local authority would be visited by the SSI , and in some cases the Audit Commission , to see the progress of the reforms . |
| 3 | In fact she agreed cheerfully that she liked to see the whites of the eyes of any constable stupid enough to encounter her with tie undone or shirt unbuttoned . |
| 4 | ‘ We had a very friendly conversation and he is 100 per cent behind Lennox Lewis and is happy to see the title in the hands of a man with dignity . |
| 5 | But to see the delight on the players ' faces on their return to the headquarters marquee after each day 's match for a glass or two of DB export and sumptuous food made for a highly successful occasion . |
| 6 | A pilgrim , whether bound for Rome , or Jerusalem , or simply one of the many shrines in England , would have expected to see the relics of the saints . |
| 7 | Their approach was similar to Gouldner 's in attempting ‘ to see the strike through the eyes of its different groups of participants ’ ( p.18 ) . |
| 8 | Milgram varied the context of the experiment systematically , sometimes by allowing the ‘ teacher ’ to see the effects of the shocks on the ‘ learner ’ , sometimes having them in the same room , sometimes not having the learner scream in pain , and so on . |
| 9 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
| 10 | fortunately we are now able to see the complexity of the processes more clearly through the painstaking researches of Soviet scholars . |
| 11 | I look forward with considerable pleasure to our arrival at Flinders whither I proceed purposely to see the remnants of the inhabitants which once peopled this fine Island over which they were Lords and Masters but now submissive creatures to the wiles of Englishmen . |
| 12 | The district nurse usually comes to see the patient in the mornings , to help him get out of bed and wash . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 14 | His cohesive solution was to see the spirit of the fabliaux , " " le description ironique de la vie quotidienne et moyenne " " , as having been born with the bourgeoisie , the town dwellers , and to propose that fabliaux were the literary expression of this social class , romance that of the aristocracy . |
| 15 | It is more a matter of approaching the book 's arguments from within a milieu of relatively academic contemporary art theory and being unable to see the wood for the trees . |
| 16 | A succession of avoidable mishaps can so sap morale and resources , that it becomes impossible to see the wood for the trees , and your energy is exhausted reacting to emergencies . |
| 17 | possession of detailed knowledge of the issue under negotiation yet able to see the wood for the trees . |
| 18 | It is often difficult for people in organisations to see the wood for the trees , and it is very , easy to concentrate on large amounts of internal detail while ignoring important trends in the outside world . |
| 19 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 20 | Nourse J in the Chancery Division agreed with the finding of the Special Commissioners and felt that the Inland Revenue had failed to see the wood for the trees ( p457e ) . |
| 21 | As you know arms control negotiations are incredibly detailed and rather arcane subjects , er so it 's a little tricky to see the wood for the trees in this one , but er arms control , obviously C F E — the Conventional Forces in Europe — er is very much an issue that will be on the table . |
| 22 | Rothstein argues that to be able to see the wood through the trees , users should focus on ‘ common systems concepts , ’ rather than open systems . |
| 23 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |
| 24 | Mrs Wood is pleased to see the back of the children 's father , and may denigrate him in conversation with or overheard by John ( possible inference from lines 21 and 22 ) . |
| 25 | One example er , a couple of examples erm , we 've worked together with the unions in Moulinex in northern France who bought Swan Kettles er which is where the G M B is erm is highly organized and er in those er meetings between the unions in , in Moulinex and Swan we 've been able to see the disparity between the conditions and the wages and be able to speak about ways in which people can go back to their , to their er workplace and work on that with that knowledge . |
| 26 | To see the form of the restrictions we will work with the very simple case when n = 2 . |
| 27 | Now , as she cautiously peered behind , she began to see the shadows in the trees , the gaunt and sinewy shapes of the mythagos which followed them , darting from shadow place to shadow place . |
| 28 | But even though justification by hindsight is easier than discovery , some people are still not rationally able to see the truth of the Gospels for themselves ; even though the Bible does point the way to moral knowledge , most people ‘ can not know , and therefore they must believe ’ . |
| 29 | The tips of the radial shields are sometimes visible and it is usually possible to see the extent of the shields beneath the disk scales . |
| 30 | From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque . |