Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 2 | If a pond and beacon were both on the line , you would only see the reflection of the beacon in the pond if you were on the line too . |
| 3 | In other words you ca n't see the power , you can only see the result of the power . |
| 4 | She could only see the glint of the whites of his eyes , and the gleam of his teeth as he smiled at her . |
| 5 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 6 | Using a hand-lens , you can easily see the difference between the wild-type , with its black compound eyes , and the pearl eye beetles with their white eyes ringed with black . |
| 7 | Alice can already see the link between the internationalism of popular music and political concerns — Live Aid , Band Aid , the Nelson Mandela Concert — superseding that of earlier internationalism based on revolutionary social class or a proselytizing religion . |
| 8 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 9 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 10 | Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems . |
| 11 | As you will not see the titles before the examination , it is better to take the skill of essay writing with you into the examination room , than memorised chunks of your old essays . |
| 12 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 13 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 14 | The Benetton spokeswoman said photographer Olivero Toscani did not see the faces of the people whose genitals appeared in the advertisement . |
| 15 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 16 | I could not see the state of the causeway . |
| 17 | I admit you do not see the copies of the letters I send or the reports spies send me . ’ |
| 18 | So far as we know , Ptolemy spent his whole life in Alexandria , which is well north of the Earth 's equator , so that he could not see the stars of the far south . |
| 19 | JTR ‘ did not see the glen to the greatest advantage ; the weather was too fine . ’ |
| 20 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |
| 21 | I am careful to have my desk angled towards the centre of the room so that I can not see the view from the window across the park towards the lake and the western curve of the South Downs . |
| 22 | If it can not see the source of the danger , it can not turn to face it and lash out in defence — there is nothing there at which to lash out . |
| 23 | How very odd that she could not see the source of the light , but could see the light itself . |
| 24 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 25 | They witness to a certainty that all the diversity of living beings are a part of a transcendent unifying spiritual whole which is by definition difficult to grasp in its totality ; individual dancers can not see the pattern of the whole dance — that is perceived only from outside . |
| 26 | We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics . |
| 27 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 28 | Hardy is amused that Richard did not see the steel beneath the silk . |
| 29 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
| 30 | ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular . |