Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] see the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
2 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
3 | At one extreme , within the committee of officials charged with reshaping the national educational system , was the isolated Cleary who saw the common school at the age of eleven gradually extending itself across the whole of the secondary age range . |
4 | This is because poorer families who see the superior goods being consumed by their richer neighbours will attempt to ‘ keep up with the Joneses ’ and so spend a large fraction of their incomes . |
5 | The problem is Mr Ramos has become a focus of discontent among younger officers who see the retired general as politically ambitious and militarily incompetent . |
6 | Of course , people who saw the ill-starred couple on parade in Nottingham this week were n't exactly knocked out by the body language . |
7 | Most people who see the run-down state of schools and public transport do not think that the picture of public spending is as rosy as that set out by the Chancellor . |
8 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
9 | The accused also might not be able to call witnesses who saw the damage-causing driver , because that driver may have terrified the witnesses to prevent them from giving evidence . |
10 | On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head . |
11 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |