Example sentences of "see [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEING FOR MILES A story of love , devotion and miracles |
| 2 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 3 | I was just wondering what sort of future you wanted to see for women in terms of their awareness of their own power ? |
| 4 | She drove across the bridge into Cookham , scarcely able to see for tears of shock and anger . |
| 5 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 6 | if you were here , where there 's no one to see for miles , |
| 7 | So , ending on a positive note rather than a pessimistic note , what would you like to see for universities in the future ? |
| 8 | Warm , seeing through holly-eyes , heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird , Tallis went with Holly-jack , deeper into the forest . |
| 9 | Smart army WAR in the 21st century will see soldiers in ‘ smart ’ helmets that allow them to see through clouds and over hills , according to a report from America 's National Research Council . |
| 10 | The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds . |
| 11 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |
| 12 | It is useful because our aim is to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ . |
| 13 | Since it is only by understanding his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language that we can hope to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ , let us consider the positive side of his teaching first . |
| 14 | How it rained in Arbroath ; trying to see through curtains of falling water makes a nonsense of note-taking . |
| 15 | His diminutive figure was always to be seen during battles with the opposition , and for this reason he gained exceptionally early admission to the Rowdies as a kind of unofficial mascot . |
| 16 | The anal pressure profile in spinal patients always resembled that seen during rises in intra-abdominal pressure caused by inflating the balloon and did not show any anal relaxation or reduction in external anal sphincter activity . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw myself sitting around a huge table eating supper with an assortment of generations — the way they do in all the films I 've seen about Italians . ’ |
| 18 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 19 | And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches . |
| 20 | The police and civil service are seen as oppressors and terrorists . |
| 21 | But these were seen as consequences , not causes . |
| 22 | Left-wing militancy a–d more especially the left-ward lurch of the Socialist Party are thus seen as responses to right-wing intransigence , and the right as bearing the main responsibility for political breakdown , ever-worsening social conflict , and ultimately , civil war . |
| 23 | Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF . |
| 24 | They feel , for example , that St Paul 's restrictions on women 's activities — in the early Christian communities to whom he was writing — are to be seen as regulations applying in all situations in the Church for all time . |
| 25 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 26 | Paley was quite right to insist that the adaptation of each individual species to its environment was an indication of divine forethought , but it was equally important to demonstrate the existence of an underlying pattern that showed that all species could be seen as elements within a rational plan . |
| 27 | Notice that both teacher and learner are seen as evaluators , a view I subscribe to ( see also Alderson 1985 ) . |
| 28 | They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer . |
| 29 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 30 | Despite the crises of the period 1945–50 , these years can also be seen as ones of great opportunity . |