Example sentences of "[is] see [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is useful because our aim is to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ . |
| 2 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 3 | The nightmare feels quite different from what he 's seen on TV — but he thinks it is closer to the truth . |
| 4 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 5 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 6 | A similar pattern is seen at 20°C except that the pattern changes more slowly . |
| 7 | It is seen at Arkwright , stopped by the Duckmanton South signal , no doubt waiting for a proceeding freight to clear the section to Heath Junction . |
| 8 | Towed behind car 624 , it is seen at Thornton Gate in 1983 . |
| 9 | Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators . |
| 10 | EMU 304027 is seen at Hadfield in February 1991 — the abandoned route towards Sheffield is beyond ( below ) . |
| 11 | The 2–8–0 is seen at Shireoaks as it takes the line to Shirebrook , heading back to its Buttlerley base . |
| 12 | In our experience , CBD stricture is seen at ERCP in 30% of patients with severe CP and is associated with persistent cholestasis , jaundice , or cholangitis in 9% . |
| 13 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
| 14 | Values : these define what is seen as success by the organisation and establish standards of achievement within the organisation . |
| 15 | There is growing concern in the Government about unemployment in the south-east of England and what is seen as discrimination in favour of Scotland and other areas through regional aid . |
| 16 | There is growing concern within the Government about the level of unemployment in the south-east of England and what is seen as discrimination in favour of Scotland and other areas through regional aid . |
| 17 | Determinism , in the more general positivist sense , means that crime is seen as behaviour that is caused by biological , psychological or social factors , depending on the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
| 18 | Other approaches , including those of Douglas and Bourdieu , are concerned with consumers themselves as groups with interests , both cognitive and material , which are projected in patterns of objects , and in this case it is industry which is seen as handmaiden to the pattern of consumer group demands . |
| 19 | For if the station is seen as cathedral or chapel , it can also be seen to possess in its heyday a Bible every bit as imposing and sometimes even as impenetrable as the Authorized Version ( Bradshaw ) , incense ( steam ) , and liturgical chanting ( ‘ The train now standing at platform 3 is … ’ , |
| 20 | As in qualitative sociology , dialogue is seen as evidence and , therefore , to be presented and digested on its own . |
| 21 | The fact that other fans recognise his behaviour as deplorable and ‘ beyond the pale ’ is seen as proof that most fans have a tacit knowledge of the rules of disorder . |
| 22 | Like his friend Donne and the other metaphysical poets , however , Herbert also uses metaphors from everyday life , from farming and tenancy , contract and debt , law and medicine ; God is seen as architect , artist and craftsman . |
| 23 | The scheme is seen as work experience rather than as a ‘ parenting ’ class , but the spin-off could benefit the families of the future . |
| 24 | Those who question or reject managerial prerogative can be accused of a selfish rejection of Japanese values in favour of alien Western individualism : ‘ an obligation of mutual attachment between firm and employee [ is ] Sanctioned by what is seen as tradition , morally correct and emblematic of Japanese culture ’ ( Clark 1979 p.175 ) . |
| 25 | On the one hand , unity is seen as equivalence . |
| 26 | Whether a given act or event is seen as pollution or not , to paraphrase Becker ( 1963 : 14 ) , depends in part on the nature of the act or event and in part on what other people do about it . |
| 27 | Firstly , the foal learns to behave like its mother , and to be bossy or passive towards the various other horses ; and secondly , and perhaps most importantly , because the foal is seen as part of its mother . |
| 28 | Anselm 's definition is seen as part of a clever philosophical con trick whereby he argues that it is greater for something to exist than not to exist , and thereby that the definition of God ( as the greatest thing conceivable ) demands that He exist ! |
| 29 | If access is seen as part of the right of autonomy of the individual , one might ask why parents , rather than the children themselves , should have access . |
| 30 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |