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

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31 Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards .
32 She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before .
33 Have n't you seen that kind of thing recently ?
34 All my life I have seen that type of person , handsome and self-assured , who knew he could have me just by crooking a finger and beckoning me to follow .
35 ‘ It can therefore be seen that variation from place to place in climax tropical lowland rain forest , which has for so long intrigued and challenged ecologists , is not open to any single or simple explanation .
36 I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it ,
37 Well I think that a number of you might have seen that definition of quality .
38 There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant .
39 The general thinking was that Mr Flood had seen some kind of vision , but was not ready yet to reveal it to the town .
40 The 1930s had seen some reorganisation of state education .
41 I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence
42 Yes , I have seen this kind of thing and it is something we avoid completely .
43 I have seen this kind of thing so often , and it will serve as an example to indicate at least five fundamental errors which are extremely common : The principal errors are :
44 And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home .
45 Ah 've seen this sort of thin' in the Mediterranean , but not as erotic . ’
46 When I revived , Wart-Face ( who introduced himself as Jean Capote ) and his companion Claude Broussac , rat-faced with a pointed nose , greasy hair and the cheekiest eyes I have seen this side of Hell , were bending over me , forcing a cup of scalding posset between my lips .
47 He had seen this aspect of officialdom before .
48 Chairman , you , you have in a sense already seen this item as part of your budget this morning , er , this is the transfer of payment from an appropriate sum er , other than from the Health Authority , to er , the Local Authority .
49 For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting .
50 He heard Mandru tell all the other Ixmaritians that never had he seen such eloquence of posture , such moving pathos .
51 School mathematics has seen considerable change of form and style in the last decade .
52 Altogether , the 1980s have seen reduced inequality in income distribution between urban and rural activities .
53 Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures .
54 She had only seen one corpse in union blue .
55 I 've seen comparable cost per port and maintenance costs for an equivalent C++ application in spite of the theoretical portability benefits of C++ .
56 Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’
57 Det Insp Anthony Caddy told the inquest that the police had been unable to find any independent witnesses who had seen any act of cruelty on Kim by her parents .
58 Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder .
59 I hear what you say , what you 're aiming to do now , without ever having seen any form of proposal .
60 Alongside its work with the increasingly excellent These Immortal Souls , Howard 's guitar has seen recent service with Crime & The City Solution and Lydia Lunch .
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