Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere . |
| 2 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 3 | A couple of the heads appeared to see devolution as an additional chore aimed simply at calculating how to allocate the money and making the books balance . |
| 4 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 5 | Would it not be a good thing if the Government explained to the people of Wolverhampton , perhaps even by taking an advertisement in the Express and Star , that the gross overspending has continued year after year because Wolverhampton council has seen education in terms of employing people in schools , not in terms of providing good education ? |
| 6 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 7 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 8 | A councillor member of a housing committee wanted to see information in a social services file on prospective adopting parents as she doubted their suitability as adopters . |
| 9 | The effect of excessive development on the environment in North Yorkshire , and the second on is a relationship with places like Cleveland and West Yorkshire and the need to continue to see regeneration within those areas . |
| 10 | Though Browne did see masturbation as a valid outlet for women , it was only permissible when ‘ normal sexual relations are difficult or impossible ’ . |
| 11 | Not all the demobilized troops had seen service in the immediate European war zone . |
| 12 | It was noted that the Hibbs contribution suggested that right-wing governments tended to see inflation as more of a problem than unemployment . |
| 13 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 14 | The past decade has seen labour-shedding on a massive scale . |
| 15 | Bobo draws attention to the role of cultural groups functioning as interpretative communities in the construction of oppositional readings of films which are regarded as reactionary by a theoreticist criticism refusing to see signification as a two-way social process . |
| 16 | Other changes have seen Walmer in Kent operating a 29 knot Atlantic 21 in place of an 8 knot Rother class . |
| 17 | Mr Baker seems to see opting-out as the reinvention of the direct-grant schools , while Mrs Thatcher appears to regard it as analogous to selling off council houses or British Gas … |
| 18 | People reported seeing smoke from over 70 miles away and helicopters were used to help fight the blaze . |
| 19 | More and more people came to see TV as their prime source of news . |
| 20 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 21 | But several witnesses had seen Orlick in town all evening . |
| 22 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 23 | Other sociologists have seen stratification as a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 24 | Earlier this year , Frankë 's manager Jake Fior went to see Virgin about revitalising the cut after it had been sampled by Sweden 's Swemix crew under the Sound Factory banner and released to some success under its original title . |
| 25 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 26 | It is fair to say , however , that while feminist educationalists have , in recent years , become more aware of the limitations of the interventionist model , the state continues to see education as an arena where social change can be promoted . |
| 27 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 28 | Dorcas liked to see eagerness in a young nome , but Nisodemus vibrated with a peculiarly hungry kind of eagerness that was unpleasant to see . |
| 29 | Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time . |
| 30 | The year has seen success in the development and commercialisation of a new series of fast fire glazes for the previously unavailable from less sophisticated systems . |