Example sentences of "[noun pl] see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
2 | Virgin Atlantic , as the new airline was to be called , would need to become airborne within the next three to four months , to take advantage of the summer traffic and generate the necessary cash reserves to see it through the fallow winter months . |
3 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
4 | Some nationalists saw it as a cosmetic measure , to end the talks on a high note for Unionists . |
5 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
6 | Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government . |
7 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
8 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
9 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
10 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
11 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
12 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
13 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
14 | The Tories saw it as a constitutional disaster without parallel , the Whigs as a famous and hard-won victory for a bold and far-reaching measure against the reactionary defence of an out-dated and corrupt constitution . |
15 | Four months later the Tories see it as an unqualified success , propelling the man who presided over it , Mr Michael Howard , into the political big league . |
16 | Wallaby skipper Nick Farr-Jones argues the toss with Scottish referee Ken McCartney — but will his competitive instincts see him through a gruelling campaign as the World Champions take on South Africa this summer ? |