Example sentences of "[noun] see [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds usually have an elongated fovea to see detail on the horizon , and most have an additional circular fovea straight ahead . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was the first motor car seen west of the Shannon . |
| 3 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 4 | Where Hegel sees national or supra-national civilisations as the instrument or the perfecting dialectic , Marx sees classes of society ; and where Hegel sees history as the account of the development of the abstract spirit of humanity — or , perhaps better , of the development of human consciousness — Marx relates his view to the mode of production which he sees as comprehending within itself all the factors affecting the formation and attributes of a society . |
| 5 | Aoun sees start of a revolution . |
| 6 | Like Rolle , Hilton sees prayer as the primary activity , recognising it as a state of consciousness which enables man to receive the gift of God ; and while it does not cause it to be given , nevertheless prayer is a way in which such grace comes ( c.24 ) He sharpens a constant awareness of two modes of activity in the inner life : that of conscious effort , and that of an effortless creative power of love and understanding which is sometimes experienced and believed by the mystics to be the work of God in man . |
| 7 | The falsificationist sees science as a set of hypotheses that are tentatively proposed with the aim of accurately describing or accounting for the behaviour of some aspect of the world or universe . |
| 8 | Durkheim saw crime as a normal phenomenon in society : ‘ it is a factor in public health and an integral part of all societies … crime , is , then , necessary ’ ( from The Rules of Sociological Method , first published in 1895 ) . |
| 9 | Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum . |
| 10 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 11 | Most consumers had bought stereo equipment by then , and equipment manufacturers saw quadraphony as a golden opportunity to cash in on sales of new records , pickups , amplifiers , and loudspeakers . |
| 12 | It seems that these authors see mind as an entity distinct from the processes that support it . |
| 13 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 14 | The event also provides a good time for parents to see evidence of the caring nature of the school and gain a flavour of the ethos and quality of relationships . |
| 15 | So , as contrasted with his September 1838 position , Darwin sees pangenesis as an evening up , on both sides , of all the powers of the sexual and asexual parts of any organism . |
| 16 | Gould saw potential of a different kind in Darwin 's collection . |
| 17 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 18 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |
| 19 | We have only to look at the disciplinary background of vice-chancellors over the past 30 years to see evidence of the modern superior position of science and technology . |
| 20 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 21 | At the start of the novel Julia sees philology as a lifeless and uncreative pursuit . |
| 22 | The Bible sees crime as a moral act for which the criminal is responsible , which sickness is not . |
| 23 | As ex-communists hung on in Serbia , many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that some workers see pragmatics as a running commentary on current linguistic methods and concerns , and its role as the juxtaposition of actual language usage with the highly idealized data on which much current theorizing is based . |
| 25 | Recently Stornoway customs officers warned Danish colleagues of a suspicious vessel seen west of the Hebrides . |
| 26 | Within this ambiguity and unclarity , Shallis sees room for an entirely different approach to the whole question of time . |
| 27 | Wilden sees structuralism as a metaphor of the discourse of science which provides the structure which defines meaning : |
| 28 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 29 | The moments they portray are the life of the next world , for the Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives along the banks of the Nile . |
| 30 | CBS see Warrant as the new Poison and , in yet another amazing rock coincidence , Poison guitarist CC Deville plays lead on the hot pumping title track . |