Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] see in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If he is really concerned about unemployment , why does he want to cripple British industry by bringing back flying pickets , by encouraging mass pickets , by returning trade union immunities , with all the difficulties that we saw in the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 3 | The right hon. Gentleman 's policies would reintroduce the levels of unemployment that we saw in the 1930s . |
| 4 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 7 | The IPCC scientific assessment group predicts that without any measures to check greenhouse gas emissions the increase in the mean global temperature will be about 0.3 ° C per decade — greater than anything seen in the 10,000 years of the interglacial . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 16 | Keats , as we saw in the preceding section , concluded with the same emphasis . |
| 17 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 18 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |
| 19 | As we saw in the last section , knowing your product well helps sell goods . |
| 20 | As we saw in the last chapter , Hooke 's law is really only true for small strains and at large strains the interatomic force curve bends over so that the strain energy is less than we have calculated , very roughly about half . |
| 21 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 22 | As we saw in the last chapter , he , too , believed in the possibility of an objective category of crime which was not necessarily the same as that defined by the existing criminal law , and its source — the reason of the ‘ few thinking men in every nation ’ seems just as elitist and potentially authoritarian . |
| 23 | By itself this association between earnings and company size is not unique to Japan , but as we saw in the last chapter the number of workers affected is greater . |
| 24 | But , as we saw in the last chapter , there may be reasons to reject this analysis of causation in favour of the one involving real connections or causal powers or both . |
| 25 | As we saw in the last chapter , a study in William Dement 's laboratory verified that external stimuli could indeed be incorporated into dreams during REM sleep . |
| 26 | This hierarchy within physics was , as we saw in the last chapter , also noted by Becher ( 1984 ) , in his examination of the ‘ culture ’ of disciplines . |
| 27 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 28 | On the one hand , as we saw in the last chapter , we are uncertain about the limits of our own species . |
| 29 | As we saw in the last chapter , quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves , and that the higher the energy of a particle , the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave . |
| 30 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |