Example sentences of "[conj] see [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
| 2 | It prepared me better than anything I 'd read or seen for the crisp exterior and soft centre of the Big Apple . |
| 3 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |
| 4 | that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling , or |
| 5 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a defence for the accused to prove — ( a ) that he had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , or ( b ) that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling , or ( c ) that his conduct was reasonable . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ ( 4 ) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to prove that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the written material displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling . ’ |
| 8 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 9 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | The percentage propulsive rate ( 26.6% ) in the interposed colon is significantly lower than that seen in the normal oesophagus ( 80% ) , and more than double that seen in the left hemicolon in its normal location ( 10% ) . |
| 11 | Levels of breakage of rodent incisors are generally low in the predator assemblages , but the incidence of digestion is higher than seen for the molars . |
| 12 | Output : The decline in output was greater than seen in the July survey and worse than had been anticipated , with a balance of 20pc of firms reporting a fall . |
| 13 | There would be a short handover period , er it would have to be administered , but from where we sit , we 're going to actually submit a bid that sees off the competition . |
| 14 | … being the book that saw into the heart of India |
| 15 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 16 | A parent is legally bound to feed , clothe , house , not to mistreat , and to see to the education of his own children , but not those of his neighbour ; although those next door are legally protected against anyone 's abuse or assault . |
| 17 | There was a railed-off space on top of the cabins which served as a kind of open-air lounge , sufficiently high to allow passengers both to enjoy the breeze and to see over the bank . |
| 18 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 19 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 20 | • Juggling the running of a house , keeping everyone well-fed and clothed , and seeing to the needs of a new baby make mothers excellent organisers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 23 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 24 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 25 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |
| 26 | These latter creations will be recognisable to a London audience from ‘ Three Worlds ’ , the exhibition of Clemente 's works on paper which was organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and seen at the Royal Academy last summer . |
| 27 | This is a hybrid of EC currencies increasingly traded on international capital markets and seen as a forerunner of a single European currency . |
| 28 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 29 | For example , an isolated regular polygon , such as a geometric square , meticulously ruled and cut from plane board , is not necessarily felt and seen as a true square . |
| 30 | It was imperative , in her view , that education meet the physical , intellectual , and moral needs of the child , that the child be respected and seen as the active agent in his own education . |