Example sentences of "see [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fascination Or sociology lies in the fact that its perspective makes us see in a new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives … . |
| 6 | Ironically , what we also find , as we shall see in a little while , is that when soteriology was really put on the map in the eleventh century much of the drama was lost . |
| 7 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 8 | As we shall see in a subsequent chapter there is good evidence for this optimism . |
| 9 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 10 | As we shall see in a later chapter , the issues raised by Papez have yet to be resolved . |
| 11 | As we shall see in a later section a woman aged 65 can expect to live for almost another 20 years . |
| 12 | As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community . |
| 13 | As we shall see in a later section , these views are consistent with the current thinking of several British theorists on soccer spectator violence . |
| 14 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 15 | You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ? |
| 16 | The development itself also takes its name from the St Mary 's lighthouse at Whitley Bay which , according to sales negotiator , Doreen xxxxxxx ‘ you can just about see from a top floor window . ’ |
| 17 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
| 18 | So sociologists can be stimulated by everyday occurrences which they , because of their training , can see from a special perspective and which they can put into a sociological frame of reference . |
| 19 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |