Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] see [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 2 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 3 | The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation . |
| 4 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 5 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 6 | certainly prior to the nineteen ninety two legislation erm in relation to what was er the was er required application but as you see since nineteen ninety two legislation , that petition was changed erm and in terms of the resolutions , we suggest that recognise the people concerned Hertfordshire and that they are taking into account the applications erm that we continue to work basically with H M I pollution aspects and that we respond to the Department of the Environment er expressing our concerns er er erm way in which er consultation has changed and in fact us . |
| 7 | They 're woven as you see on thirty six inch wide hand-looms . |
| 8 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 9 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 10 | The difficulty arises , as we saw with professional groupings , of sub-groups existing within an organisation that do not all share the same goals or values . |
| 11 | As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities . |
| 12 | But as we saw in that magnificent film The Cruel Sea ( recently re-shown on television ) it was even more nerve-wracking to serve in a slow moving ammunition ship or tanker , bearing a lethal cargo , than to man the depth charges and guns on a naval corvette , which was at least able to defend itself . |
| 13 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 14 | It will be amazing if this government runs the full course and as we saw in nineteen nineties the Tories just love leadership elections putting the knife in . |
| 15 | This is not an unproblematic statement ( as we saw in 1.4 ) , but is sufficiently true of a wide enough range of cases not to be cast aside lightly . |
| 16 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 17 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 18 | As we saw in earlier chapters , CDs are now issued by a wide variety of banks and since 1983 by building societies . |
| 19 | For the Holy Spirit understands not only the mind of the Lord , as we saw in I Corinthians 2 , but the mind of struggling Christians . |
| 20 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 21 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 22 | Some initiatives have already fallen on stony ground , but , as we see in subsequent features , others keep coming . |
| 23 | In any case , with their predominant highest parts , the lower parts could be played instead of sung — as we see from contemporary pictures . |