Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the film has stopped I want you to describe everything that you saw during the previous five seconds of film . |
| 2 | Again he had the impression that she was a young girl , for there was a smoothness about her skin that one sees in the young before the face reaches the border of adulthood . |
| 3 | God of all love , give vision to those dazzled by the bright lights of Christmas so that they see into the dark cribs beyond the packed inns and be the shepherd or the person of wisdom to those who have nothing to celebrate . |
| 4 | No longer through Bibles , sacred texts and holy writ is the world conquered , but by the promise that if the poorest countries will carry out the prescriptions — indeed , the orders — of the western financial institutions , they too will achieve the levels of affluence and ease that they see in the western world . |
| 5 | Scobie — he 's the Lab attendant — and I sees to the working labs but all the heavy cleaning is supposed to be done by the contractors . |
| 6 | As Keeton acknowledges , Dicey ‘ inherited an outlook upon the constitution which owed something to Burke , Blackstone and Bagehot , and which saw in the English system the climax of political achievement ’ . |
| 7 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 8 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |
| 9 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 10 | By the way erm it 's always rather amusing when you see in the old history books the er the idea that erm that , to give an example , somebody like Metternich . |
| 11 | As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence . |
| 12 | We are now reaching a position in which growth and investment will reoccur and , as we saw throughout the complete period of the 1980s , there will be a growth in the absolute number of jobs . |
| 13 | This is why Springboks these days come from only these six unions , as we saw in the recent internationals . |
| 14 | However , as we saw in the final sections of that chapter , a consideration of single word identification leads naturally to a consideration of the larger linguistic units in which words normally occur ; and hence we concluded the previous chapter with a discussion of contextual effects on visual and auditory word recognition . |
| 15 | Keats , as we saw in the preceding section , concluded with the same emphasis . |
| 16 | If being a real person implies consciously living before God , as we saw in the previous chapter , then the integrity of a man and woman living together needs the further consciousness of God in both their lives . |
| 17 | The problems of Kosovo , as we saw in the previous section , are mainly economic . |
| 18 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |
| 19 | As we saw in the previous section , there is an understandable reluctance to move against firms that have competed successfully and won market share . |
| 20 | Then , as we saw in the previous chapter , it was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , but it lasted for a very short period . |
| 21 | As we saw in the previous chapter on Leadership , the key to success in leadership is to obtain the best ‘ mix ’ of attention to task and attention to people , taking the total situation into account . |
| 22 | As we saw in the previous paragraph , there are many kinds of user . |
| 23 | As we saw in the previous section , a great problem for rule-based hypothesize-and-test systems is the difficulty of matching a higher-level description to a partially determined representation of the input . |
| 24 | As we saw in the previous section , the model is extremely complicated . |
| 25 | As we saw in the previous chapter , properties of the blackboard model developed for HEARSAY-II turned out to be incompatible with certain characteristics of the speech processing task . |
| 26 | As we saw in the previous chapter , HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II relied heavily on strong interactions . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 28 | Let me not suggest that he could not work freely and spontaneously when he chose , as we see in the late The Gipping from Blakenham , 1977 , a watercolour which displays admirable freedom as opposed to recklessness . |
| 29 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 30 | It can be destructive as we see in the black humour centring round the image of the Jewish mother who with her tears blackmails her son 's emotional life . |