Example sentences of "see [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 2 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 3 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 4 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 5 | And what changes can we expect to see during the coming year ? |
| 6 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 7 | ARBROATH struck four times at Bayview last night to see off the Scottish Cup challenge of East Fife and advance to a home quarter-final tie with Rangers . |
| 8 | MONICA SELES was forced into a dramatic change of tactic to see off the stubborn challenge of Jana Novotna and reach the semi-finals of the Virginia Slims Championship in New York . |
| 9 | IF ONLY one side had a clear lead , what parties there would be : parties to welcome home John Major , parties to see off the blasted yoke of Tory rule , parties for the sake of parties . |
| 10 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 11 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 12 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 13 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
| 14 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 15 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 16 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 17 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 18 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 19 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 20 | The main effect is seen during the prepatent phase , when the larvae are in the mucosa . |
| 21 | This is seen as the great strength of the market order and an important condition for freedom : there is agreement on means but not ends , which makes it possible for society to reconcile the differing purposes of individuals within a catallaxy which is purely economic . |
| 22 | The effect of this can be seen as the compiled code for VAX is typically smaller than PDP-11 code . |
| 23 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 24 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 25 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 26 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 27 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 28 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 29 | The intent behind these changes within the Labour Party constitution spills over to pose a challenge to the kind of democracy that has been seen as the essential hallmark of the liberal-democratic British constitution . |
| 30 | For methodological reasons , it is important to distinguish between this and the socially based interpretation of the results , because if the social factors involved are seen as the motivating principle for the selection and analysis of linguistic variables , the investigators may be accused of biased selectivity and circularity . |