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Example sentences of "seeing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line .
2	As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many .
3	I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year .
4	He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge .
5	Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara .
6	I 'm very active in the Party in Manchester and er would support the union and the region er , as a constituency er constituency member and I , you know , spend hours every week trying to ke keep this , keep the Party in Manchester going and I think that what we 've actually got , what we 're seeing inside the Parliamentary Party , are a number of people who seem to have forgotten who they 're supposed to be representing .
7	Most of us of course will be occupied seeing in the New Year .
8	‘ I never thought I 'd be seeing in the New Year with Will Carling and company in Lanzarote .
9	and because of the ineptitude of the leadership of the T U C , that opportunity has been lost and what are we also seeing in the public sector ?
10	Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ .
11	Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts .
12	Again , she did not sleep and for once was glad when Mr Landor called out , cursing the heat and wanting cold , cold water at once — even seeing to the old man 's wants was preferable to lying awake worrying .
13	What we might be seeing on the extreme right is not the last stages of antisemitism , but its continuation in a climate without Jewish issues , or , to be precise , without the son of Jewish issues which can mobilize the support which the extreme right seeks .
14	The DHA responded to the MIND critique , strongly refuting the charge of having no coherent strategy and of not seeing beyond the enabling schemes .
15	He entered , and for some time stood alone and unrecognised on the Turkey carpet , seeing among the well-to-do crowd not a soul he knew except Dr Heatherton , in the distance , talking with someone ; and Mrs Heatherton , followed by her bevy of obedient daughters , their skirts rustling prosperously wherever they went .