Example sentences of "[be] see [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much have you been seeing of Jones during the weeks when I 've had to leave you alone here ? |
| 2 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 3 | ‘ So you are seeing through sun ’ , |
| 4 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 5 | Most are seen between December and February , with a decided peak in January . |
| 6 | Most Long-tailed Ducks are seen at sea or on tidal waters , but one or two are recorded on inland waters almost every year . |
| 7 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 8 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 9 | Here two examples are seen at Gilberdyke . |
| 10 | We must stop these accidents happening , particularly by wearing reflective gear so we are seen at night . |
| 11 | Trislanders are seen at Alderney 's down home ’ little airport below , and at Dinard 's more palatial Pleurtuit right . |
| 12 | Someone directing others needs to know the Bible as his own resource of study and meditation , to know its teaching about man 's relationship with God in covenant , encounter , incorporation , to know both its teaching on prayer and those who in its pages are seen at prayer . |
| 13 | Devonian plants , the earliest known terrestrial plants , are seen at Rhynie , and are regularly used by palaeobotanists to develop techniques and expertise . |
| 14 | First ships of DB2 3.1 are seen for July . |
| 15 | First ships of DB2 3.1 are seen for July . |
| 16 | Both spoken and written texts are seen as sites where the tensions between " competing discourses " are realised . |
| 17 | Prescriptive rules , on the other hand , are seen as directions for action . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has created five new senior vice-presidents , all of which are seen as front-runners to succeed John Akers atop the company . |
| 19 | Pupils are seen as recipients , with very little to offer to the curriculum . |
| 20 | In simple societies , whose collective sentiments are based on religion , all crimes ( even crimes such as murder ) are essentially ‘ religious criminality ’ : they are seen as offences against God or the gods . |
| 21 | In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world . |
| 22 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 23 | Other energies , such as heat , are seen as manifestations of prana , rather than energies in their own right . |
| 24 | The police and civil service are seen as oppressors and terrorists . |
| 25 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 26 | But in fact the dots are seen as lines due to the laws of proximity and similarity . |
| 27 | The general view was that yes , women are seen as females first and musicians second . |
| 28 | Though these developments are seen as part of moves to reduce Macao 's dependence on gambling ( which contributes 25 per cent of government revenue ) and Hong Kong ( which provides most of its gamblers ) , they leave some residents uneasy about China 's growing involvement in the local economy . |
| 29 | Political conflicts of the sort which characterize the Northern Ireland problem are of a quite different nature because they are seen as part of a ‘ zero-sum ’ game . |
| 30 | Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series . |