Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation .
2 Consequently , it can be misleading to see circulars as evidence of central departments attempting to regulate local authorities .
3 He wanted other states to see Romania as part of neither bloc .
4 As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability .
5 This conclusion highlights the importance of seeing support between kin in the context of the interpersonal relationships of the parties to these negotiations .
6 New points in the revised announcement 47 from the OPB include additional stress on the need for trustees to have considered all the options and the application should demonstrate that this has been done ; that they had sought independent legal advice ‘ from lawyers who do not advise the company on such matters ’ ( the OPB does not regard another partner in the same firm as ‘ independent ’ ) and the OPB would find it ‘ helpful ’ to see copies of correspondence between them ; and specific details of the information sent to members which should be contained in the application .
7 Radicals wanted to see progress towards humankind as the central theme , but conservatives like Owen , worried about the status of the human soul , preferred more complex patterns of development that allowed for entirely new levels of organization to be introduced from time to time .
8 Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’
9 For it was certain , Leith considered , that with the evidence Naylor Massingham had of seeing Travis in bed at her flat , and again seeing her with Travis in that hotel dining-room , he was going to want more from Travis than any declaration of , ‘ Leith is n't my girlfriend , so do n't sack her ’ .
10 Such a dismissive attitude , which fails to see research as part of a professional task , seems to me unhelpful because whenever we make a decision , it is based on assumptions and values .
11 People are are seeing animals as objects of entertainment , objects of amusement , we should not be allowing circuses to present animals in this way to our society and particularly to children .
12 I w I wanted to see Aspects of Love with Michael Caine in , I mean Michael Ball , but he 's not in it any more .
13 11 Walk to see lambs in summertime in the Yorkshire Dales National Park .
14 I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for .
15 Archaeologists are beginning to realize this and are looking at alternative approaches , seeing sites as part of the landscape and related to one another , something which has been advocated by students of leys and Earth Mysteries for many years .
16 ‘ She 's working , ’ Luke returned dismissively , and it was true , she realised , following his glance and seeing Cavell in conversation with a television reporter .
17 But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise .
18 When I look at the results of other development efforts , I have also not seen improvements in cost of maintenance .
19 I 've seen loads of rings like this , so they ca n't be worth much . ’
20 A few commentators have seen signs of hope in the recent refusal at appeal of applications for large centres alongside the M1 near Leicester and at Cribbs Causeway outside Bristol .
21 Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said .
22 No.4 Troop had caught a section of German defenders early in the battle as they ran to their alarm posts , but other Germans , many of whom had seen action in Norway in 1940 , tenaciously defended the strongpoints including the improvised fortifications of the Ulvesund Hotel .
23 The ‘ 62 Strat shown in the recently published Fender Book described as Fiesta Red , is red and I 've seen pictures of others in mags described as Salmon Pink that were pink , like mine was .
24 But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century .
25 Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings .
26 But David , he 's not proving a very good father is he , because er , I 'm sure many , many people will have seen pictures on television on Wednesday night , of how these sanctions are really hurting the Iraqi people .
27 The film 's director , Arthur Hiller , had previously seen Dustin in Journey of the Fifth Horse , and ‘ was bowled over by how convincing and skilful he was playing an elderly man .
28 Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted .
29 At present the Vienna , Virginia-based company is ranked around number seven in the league table of software companies , having seen revenues of $426.7m in 1992 .
30 Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris .
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