Example sentences of "[noun pl] see [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 2 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 3 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 4 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 5 | Waited 2 ½ hours to see the same official . |
| 6 | Some sleeping dogs prefer to lie and will be reluctant supporters seeing the increasing claims as an intrusion or even unreasonable . |
| 7 | The excited crowds thronging their decks , and pressing over each other 's shoulders to see the glorious city slide by , always remind me of pilgrims come to a shrine , or perhaps merchants bringing to this incomparable market-place furs , spices and slaves from the east . |
| 8 | While the long-wavists might point to effects of changes in production on wider society , they are less likely than the regulationists to see the cause-and-effect relation going the other way . |
| 9 | Miserably she handed him her coat at his frosty request , her chastened eyes seeing the annoyed glares from those nearest the door . |
| 10 | Everyone raised their heads to see a young hedgehog standing before the Lord Mayor . |
| 11 | The record , many copies of which still turn up among the ditches and hedgerows at the leafier end of Whaddon , portrayed a hope and optimism belied by bailiffs at the turnstiles , and its hummability led players and supporters to see the coming season and decade as the dawning of a new age . |
| 12 | Come on our trips to see the best of Rhodes . |
| 13 | In the future , if ever my old feelings about Mr Rochester began to return , I would only have to glance at the two pictures to see the great difference between us , and in this way common sense would destroy my foolish dreams . |
| 14 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 15 | Theoretically faulty , because the individualized treatment model identified the cause of crime as a pathology within the individual , whereas the authors saw the true causes of crime as structural , resulting from the way in which society is organized . |
| 16 | Security at Tern Hill barracks , near Market Drayton , Shropshire , was increased after two guards saw a suspicious figure in woods near the perimeter fence . |
| 17 | ‘ It must not happen , ’ said Grainne more quietly , and several of her listeners saw the golden light beginning to glow in her eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ Andy Toman was terrific and was the best player on the park , while the fans saw the best of Nick Pickering . |
| 19 | Nathan was intrigued by a polar bear trap used when the Norwegians saw the big white bear as target rather than as tourist attraction . |
| 20 | The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler . |
| 21 | But nobody noticed the sinister shape at Decatur , Alabama , until recently , when local newsmen saw an aerial photo . |
| 22 | All but six of the 23 unit trust sectors saw a net inflow of funds during the month , with the top spots taken by UK Growth , with a rise of £86 million , and the Far East sector , excluding Japan , up by £85 million . |
| 23 | Since there were 32 subjects , four subjects saw a given sequence . |
| 24 | Beamish was slowly grasping his newfound trade and , with Pybus at his side , players and supporters saw the coming season as the dawning of a new age . |
| 25 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 26 | The last decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries saw a major attempt at moral restructuring which had its effects both in legislation and in the tone of public life . |
| 27 | The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a remarkable bout of church building , fuelled by the great split in 1843 when 451 out of a total of 1,203 ministers left to form the Free Church of Scotland . |
| 28 | The next two centuries saw an extensive use of this method of book illustration , but it was too costly and delicate for large editions . |
| 29 | The fourth and fifth centuries saw the wholesale Romanization of Christianity and Christianization of Roman society . |
| 30 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the final triumph of scientific medicine under male control . |