Example sentences of "they see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ? |
| 2 | Do they see temptation or trouble on the trees ? |
| 3 | They saw nationalism as a bourgeois movement , but also as a danger to the working-class movement , which might become tainted by nationalist tendencies . |
| 4 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 5 | As a result , because they saw descent groups as enlarged families , something which Marx and Engels had themselves done in The German Ideology , but which they later emphatically rejected , Marx saw writers such as Maine arguing that monogamy , the subjugation of women , the nuclear family and private property were ineluctable basic principles in the nature of man . |
| 6 | They saw gold and silver dust drift downward from their hands , they told Rhoda . |
| 7 | Scarlet knew that Constance 's family had firmly structured views on vengeance and a quick and subtle ear for a slight : sometimes they saw offence where none was intended , being — Scarlet allowed — not distinguished by great intelligence . |
| 8 | In the Palazzo Pubblico they saw Martini 's cavalier , dressed in the same golden , diamond-patterned cloak as his horse . |
| 9 | Marx in the notebooks is opposed to McLennan , Maine , Phear , and other who disagreed with Morgan over the commonality of the gens , principally because they saw society growing out of the individual monogamous family with its private property . |
| 10 | Four of Mr Brown 's police protection squad told ABC News they saw drug use at his Los Angeles home . |
| 11 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 12 | They saw factory work as a source of pride rather than low status , and in this way they inverted the ideas of the teachers and other more powerful groups in society . |
| 13 | They saw order in everything — even in the chaos of nature — and their patience was infinite . |
| 14 | Instead of limited liberal-democracy they saw unrestrained mass democracy pushing the state into ever more intervention ; instead of responsible party government they saw adversary politics ; and instead of the harmony of pluralist group competition they saw only overload and hyperpluralism with the trade unions as the new lads on the top . |
| 15 | They saw evacuation through very different eyes . |
| 16 | It is , however , likely that the pornographic film was a potent stimulus for both groups of young men , yet the effect it had on their dreams was only explicable in terms of their ideology — in particular , in terms of how they saw sexuality in relation to their own lives . |
| 17 | They saw salvation not in integration but in the setting up of " blacks only " states . |
| 18 | This time , they saw enemy fighters appear over Denmark , the first fighters seen since the March 6 mission to Berlin . |
| 19 | Finally , some key workers were apprehensive because they saw care programming as one step towards making them responsible for purchasing care , like budget-holding care managers in some social services authorities . |
| 20 | Among the many places they saw action were Ploegsteert , Hebuterne , Somme , Le-Sars , Peronne , 3rd Battle of Ypres ( Pilkem Ridge , St Julien , Vimy ) . |
| 21 | However , a worthwhile innovation here was to begin with a conference conversation whereby small mixed national groups were asked to produce a list of the key questions that they saw action research as needing to answer , and a summary of how the group envisaged moving from the question to an appropriate answer . |
| 22 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 23 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 24 | The two men were standing on the balcony outside James 's flat when they saw smoke billowing out of the 75-year-old woman 's home below . |
| 25 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 26 | They saw disorder steadily growing , like a baby , and called this entropy . |
| 27 | Each distilled their football to pure essence — England brave , dogged , hard-tackling , hard-running ; West Germany all of this , but with a more cerebral approach and a technical proficiency to their skills ; Italy were graceful , inventive , passionate , defensively-minded but flecked with great individual skill ; and then there was Brazil — inspired by Pele , Tostao , Jarizinho , Gerson and Rivelino , they saw football as a means to creating beauty , and scoring goals as a form of existential ecstasy . |
| 28 | Peeking around the kitchen door , they saw rubbish being emptied from dustbins into their home . |
| 29 | It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge . |
| 30 | As we have seen , although positivist criminologists were often shy of associating themselves with specific corrective programmes , they saw crime as pathological and shared a general consensus in favour of a broadly rehabilitative approach to ridding ourselves of it . |