Example sentences of "[be] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 3 | The large time-of-flight of the ions disperses them according to their energy : highest-energy ions arrive first in the atmosphere and are seen at the lowest latitudes . |
| 4 | People are seen as the key organisation resource and employees are aware that their best efforts are essential and they will share in their companies ' success . |
| 5 | Perhaps surprisingly , wide area Asynchronous Transfer network services are seen as the final phase , since SynOptics feels that carriers will be slower off the mark to respond to demand ( despite the fact that AT&T Co said that it will introduce Asynchronous Transfer Mode services towards the end of the year ) . |
| 6 | For methodological reasons , it is important to distinguish between this and the socially based interpretation of the results , because if the social factors involved are seen as the motivating principle for the selection and analysis of linguistic variables , the investigators may be accused of biased selectivity and circularity . |
| 7 | Expressed in their paintings and sculpture and stories , these elements are seen as the successive thresholds , or levels of initiation , which the warrior of consciousness must broach on his path to enlightenment . |
| 8 | Regional councils are seen as the nearest equivalent . |
| 9 | The " drug barons " , importing from Thailand , Pakistan , or Colombia , are seen as the real cause of increasing " hard " drug addiction in the UK , rather than the fact that they would have no market if there were no demand . |
| 10 | Free elections , which could result in the Communist Party being reduced to playing a junior role , are seen as the only realistic way forward to end East Germany 's political and economic crisis . |
| 11 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 12 | Productivity through people : people are seen as the sole basis for success which is developed through respect for the individual expressed through trust . |
| 13 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 14 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
| 15 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 16 | Contrasting views on health services planning are seen in the two reports . |
| 17 | ( Just think of the whispers sweeping around the office when Jeremy or Karen are seen in the car-park adding — or better still subtracting — a logo or two . ) |
| 18 | IBM Corp 's forthcoming Rios 2 RISC should do around 100 SPECint92 and floating point performance of 250 SPECfp92 , exceeding even Silicon Graphics Inc 's forthcoming TFP part : first system ships are seen in the third quarter this year . |
| 19 | The treatments for gonorrhoea and syphilis are standardized throughout the country , and an estimated 80 per cent of cases are seen in the special dermato-venereological clinics . |
| 20 | Similarly , old people are seen in the same light , which explains their lack of employment or active leisure pursuits . |
| 21 | If any pixels are seen in the resulting region then ( a ) the reference card has moved , ( b ) the subject or other material has moved into the reference region or ( c ) one or both of the exposure and illumination is too high and spurious pixels are seen by spreading . |
| 22 | The young working class in deindustrialising , inner urban areas are seen by the new subcultural theory as caught up in a bitter series of conflicts and contradictions . |
| 23 | Extreme dates for this species are 4 August and 16 May , but not many are seen before the second half of October . |
| 24 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
| 25 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
| 26 | Among students of small-town plans , linear settlements of this type have been seen as the commonest and the earliest form from which more complex plans evolved . |
| 27 | The intent behind these changes within the Labour Party constitution spills over to pose a challenge to the kind of democracy that has been seen as the essential hallmark of the liberal-democratic British constitution . |
| 28 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
| 29 | An advocate of Copernican astronomy , an infinite universe , and a plurality of worlds , Bruno has often been seen as the archetypal scientific martyr . |
| 30 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |