Example sentences of "[noun pl] see [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order . |
| 2 | One fox was caught , too far away for the riders to see in a day of little incident . |
| 3 | Pictures seen on a wall , shadow-play ? |
| 4 | He was a tall stout man with a florid complexion , who looked well in vestments seen from a distance . |
| 5 | For Merrill the marriage service was a kaleidoscope of images seen at a distance because of her acute consciousness of Luke 's presence . |
| 6 | The mystic tears have the effect of distorting the vision so the eyes see through a veil ; but even more is the mind distorted and the interior vision is transfigured . |
| 7 | Option 4 : The sum of pixels seen over a number of successive pictures with different exposures . |
| 8 | The cell count represented the number of endocrine cell nuclei seen in a column of mucosa extending through the muscularis mucosa to the surface . |
| 9 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 10 | And so what credit O'Neill might have acquired for his reform package was instantly lost by what Catholics saw as a refusal to confront the loyalist mobs who really ran Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 12 | It is Jesus 's teaching to his disciples , however , that he refers most frequently to the Old Testament , both by explicit quotations and by innumerable verbal echoes , so that some passages seen like a patch-work of Old Testament words and ideas . |
| 13 | The building of a hotel and golf course as well as an extra 30 corporate hospitality boxes at Lingfield was the sort of commercial diversification that the Muddles see as a prerequisite to transforming racecourses into the nice little earners they should be . |
| 14 | The fact that the Fund was only too willing to lend in return for a written undertaking that domestic economic policy would follow the lines agreed in negotiations between Treasury officials and the Fund investigators in the autumn of 1976 , involved what many Labour activists saw as a loss of governing powers to an external force that was anti-socialist . |
| 15 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 16 | It seems that Turner showed one of his drawings of Plymouth Sound , with several ships seen against a background of the setting sun , to a ship 's officer . |
| 17 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 18 | They 're trying to trace two men seen in a car close to where the attack happened . |
| 19 | These are prominently displayed in the reservations area or the reception office and enable the receptionists to see at a glance whether they can accept a booking for a certain date . |
| 20 | Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball . |