Example sentences of "seeing the [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The -e has become attracted to the -ly ; the speller is seeing the word as a whole , instead of as love + ly |
| 2 | Such explanations of state behaviour are ‘ society-centred ’ , seeing the state as a cipher , a machine or a mirror in our vocabulary . |
| 3 | His command was very successful and included seeing the settlement through a near-famine when a plague of caterpillars ate most of the green food . |
| 4 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 5 | Radio presenters and producers often get great pleasure from seeing the success of a record which they have championed . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's seeing the university as a factory where people are given identifiable , quantifiable market skills which plug into an entrepreneurial vision of society . |
| 7 | Typically for the Piaroa , the women are not warned against seeing the instruments with a threat of rape ; rather , it is said that if a woman should see the flutes , the entire village must commit mass suicide by joining hands and jumping off a cliff ( and I must admit that their reasoning on this is not clear to me ) . |
| 8 | And William Blake dreamed of seeing the world in a grain of sand . |
| 9 | An interesting observation is relevant to this way of seeing the market in a world of production . |
| 10 | The added complication of seeing the image as a vehicle of ‘ representation ’ is also unwarranted . |
| 11 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 12 | It lends itself quite suitably to the UK sporting scene which is populated by many black sportsmen growing up in broken homes , settling on the side of the mother and eventually seeing the father as an anathema , as did Repton heavyweight Ray Tabi : |
| 13 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 14 | My Lady Dedlock ( who is childless ) , looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper 's lodge , and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper . |
| 15 | Certainly , it is interesting that trees in general , and , more especially , the more phallic-shaped cypresses and other evergreens , play a significant role in the myths associated with the Attis cult ( not to mention the cases of Adonis , Tammuz , Osiris — and , if we are correct in seeing the Cross as a tree — Christ ) . |