Example sentences of "see [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE parliament of Lithuania yesterday followed eastern Europe in abandoning the political supremacy of the Communist Party in favour of a multi-party system in what conservative Russian Communists will see as a brazen act of defiance . |
| 2 | Of course , to keep the programming simple , a factor which many will see as a major advantage , there are limitations as to exactly how much any one effect can be adjusted . |
| 3 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 4 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 5 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 6 | The Queen should not , in your opinion , abdicate in favour of Prince Charles ( 61% ) , and those of you who answered the question , ‘ Is there any member of the Royal family you 'd rather see as the future king/queen ? ’ , chose the Princess Royal ( placing her way out ahead of the Princess of Wales ) . |
| 7 | So , do you see as the real reason for the shut-down of Dido and Pluto really a win for the arguments long standing of the environmental lobby . |
| 8 | What do you see as the primary cause of marriage breakdown ? |
| 9 | ‘ Suppose we go with what the kid says , what do you see as the next step ? ’ |
| 10 | There is an interesting link between the setting up of reserves such as Chitawan and what some may see as the bad old days of tiger hunting . |
| 11 | This is what most career advisers would see as the recommended approach . |
| 12 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 13 | They 're so stupid , grown-ups , thinking you ca n't see through every fucking thing they do . |
| 14 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 15 | One moment she was running and dodging through the striations of ice and carmine and sloe , with the fear that the walls of Spiderglass could see through the ancient cliffs of Mars to where she finally crouched , exhausted . |
| 16 | She noticed he was n't peering , eyes wrinkled , as she had — just gazing , as if he could easily see through the dense Undersea drift . |
| 17 | I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes . |
| 18 | The wash boiler is on in the kitchen so you can not see through the French window for steam . |
| 19 | An elderly woman had appeared out of the kitchen which Edwards could see through the half-opened door at the end of the small hallway . |
| 20 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |
| 21 | ‘ I lived in America for a long time and I can see through the glossy image-making of his campaign , I think . |
| 22 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 23 | get away from here , I ca n't see for the flaming |
| 24 | That compares with the figures you 'll see for the inner routes erm which are higher er because of the er greater transfer of traffic from existing roads . |
| 25 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 26 | Philip Heslop QC , counsel for club chairman Alan Sugar , said January , 1994 , was the earliest date he could see for the full hearing of the dispute between Mr Sugar and Spurs ' chief executive Terry Venables . |
| 27 | This , combined with an impeccable knowledge of his business from the bottom up he worked as a lift fitter 's mate for a year and the quality of the Pickerings product are the reasons that the company should see off the imminent dip in profits . |
| 28 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 29 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 30 | It 's the last I 'll see of the outside for a long time . ’ |