Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 2 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 3 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 4 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 5 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 6 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 7 | The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church . |
| 8 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |
| 9 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 10 | Do n't be grumpy or touchy now — you 'll be glad to see them after 26.2 miles and you want them to be happy to see you too . |
| 11 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 12 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 13 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 15 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 16 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 18 | Until more material of O. nodosa is available it would be best to treat them as distinct specimens . |
| 19 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 20 | Gloucestershire police said there was no evidence to connect them with recent bombings such as the attack on Royal Marine bandsmen at Deal , Kent . |
| 21 | It remained for the Spaniards to connect them in extended compositions and base them on secular songs as Cabezón did on the ‘ Canto del Caballero ’ and ‘ Guardame las vacas ’ or play them as so many Mass-movements and motets were even more incongruously played — on the lute . |
| 22 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
| 23 | This research aims to assess UK policies for technical innovation in this broad context and to compare them with similar policies in other countries . |
| 24 | The temptation is to anthropomorphise their plight , to compare them with human beings in similar situations ( as Rollin does explicitly ) who would almost certainly be distressed at the opportunities that they were foregoing and make protest . |
| 25 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 26 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 27 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 28 | The ignorant , baffled by the appearance of Picasso 's and Braque 's paintings , tended , indeed , to classify them as complete abstractions . |
| 29 | They have to cope them in accepted rites |
| 30 | You had to wear them at certain times . |