Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] see [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 2 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 3 | The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation . |
| 4 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 5 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 6 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 7 | The difficulty arises , as we saw with professional groupings , of sub-groups existing within an organisation that do not all share the same goals or values . |
| 8 | As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities . |
| 9 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 10 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 11 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 12 | As we saw in earlier chapters , CDs are now issued by a wide variety of banks and since 1983 by building societies . |
| 13 | For the Holy Spirit understands not only the mind of the Lord , as we saw in I Corinthians 2 , but the mind of struggling Christians . |
| 14 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 15 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 16 | Some initiatives have already fallen on stony ground , but , as we see in subsequent features , others keep coming . |
| 17 | In any case , with their predominant highest parts , the lower parts could be played instead of sung — as we see from contemporary pictures . |