Example sentences of "[adj] see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange to see in the flesh a man whose name and face had since 1939 been almost as familiar to me as those of Churchill or Hitler . |
| 2 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 3 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 4 | The party reached the lip of the main summit crater safely , only to find that it was quite docile , and that there was little to see within the crater apart from dense , swirling clouds of pungent sulphurous steam . |
| 5 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 6 | It is certainly possible to see in the charter deeds of the denomination ( which is what the Book of Common Prayer seems to be for many ) this vision to reach those outside the church . |
| 7 | As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs . |
| 8 | As Wassen , the next village after Gurtnellen , is approached , it is possible to see from the road the manner in which the railway line ( now running on the opposite side of the valley from both roads ) climbs the steep " steps " in the valley floor which occasion waterfalls . |
| 9 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 10 | It is their custom , even on their largest ships , to show no lights at night — on the principle that it is better to see than to be seen , and that it is easier to see in the dark without the distraction of lights . |
| 11 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 12 | There is a legitimate fear of ‘ straitjacket-ing ’ the nursery/early years curriculum to fit what some see as the constraints of a national curriculum and the requirements of the testing programme . |
| 13 | Part cause is undoubtedly what some see as the need for straightforward yet all-inclusive definitions ; the lack of which can often be used by politicians and official bodies as a strategic delaying tactic . |
| 14 | A change of context between the exposure phase and the conditioning phase should , therefore , eliminate latent inhibition at the 24-h interval and reduce that seen at the 4-h interval . |
| 15 | When oleic acid was added to deoxycholate as an emulsion , the release of PYY and enteroglucagon was similar to that seen with the bile salt alone . |
| 16 | This study confirms that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus have a marked degree of acid gastrooesophageal reflux , considerably exceeding that seen in the majority of patients with erosive oesophagitis without columnarisation . |
| 17 | The increase in referral rates in the fundholding group ( from 107.3 to 111.4 referrals per 1000 patients a year ) was much smaller than that seen in the non-fundholding ( control ) group ( from 95.0 to 112.0 ) . |
| 18 | For a distance of 1.5kpc and beaming into 3.4 steradian ( an assumed value based on the pulse width ) , this represents 6.1x10 34 ergs -1 or about 1.8% of the spin-down energy loss of 3.4x10 36 ergs -1 , comparable to that seen in the Vela pulsar for similar assumptions . |
| 19 | The cell surface expression of the Eα d /Eβ b/s heterodimer , remained cnstant over the range of Ea copy-numbers , being equivalent to that seen in the control BALB/c mouse spleen ( data not shown ) . |
| 20 | This pattern is essentially the same as that seen in the absence of actinomycin and confirms that at equilibrium insufficient actinomycin is bound to tyr T to produce a footprint . |
| 21 | This mortality rate is very similar to that seen in the mortality studies for conventional management of acute myocardial infarction without thrombolytic treatment . |
| 22 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 23 | Besides which , there 's nothing much to see except the motorway and a lot of Krautish industrialists hurrying south in their Mercedes towards the bum-boys of Naples . ’ |
| 24 | There was n't much to see with the fog , only grey stone walls as they carried on , eventually reaching the Inner Ward , everything cut off around them . |
| 25 | Bed and breakfast is readily available and there is much to see in the area . |
| 26 | It is easy to see on the dinner plate that the muscles down each side of any fish are arranged as a row of segments , a battery of muscle units . |
| 27 | The need for the Bill , which will tidy up the law on the legality of traffic-calming measures , is easy to see throughout the country . |
| 28 | Smaller and paler , especially beneath , than Skylark ( p. 205 ) , with no crest , shorter bill , unstreaked underparts and a distinctive small dark patch on each side of breast , not always easy to see in the field . |
| 29 | The Court said that it was not easy to see in the circumstances what other inquiries Savory Milln could have made . |
| 30 | It is easy to see from the list of qualities appropriate to the good Beguine listed in one thirteenth-century manuscript how their piety engaged with contemplative spirituality . |