Example sentences of "see [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 2 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 3 | Often he spent the night underneath his desk , hoping to see or hear any trace of it . |
| 4 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 5 | And Have you seen or heard other articles or features about British special issues in any of the sources shown ? |
| 6 | A total of 87 per cent of those surveyed had not seen or heard any information on recent warnings across the country . |
| 7 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 8 | E here have you seen or heard any advertising for British special stamp issues ? |
| 9 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 10 | RASA : Drink eaten by a rare Talahari tribe that no one has ever seen or found any evidence to prove that they exist . |
| 11 | She found she was trembling , not with fear but with excitement , there was something about helping the most unusual villain she 'd ever seen that stirred unknown feelings deep within her . |
| 12 | She had seen and noticed this despondency , this weightedness , in her mother . |
| 13 | The simple act of starting out on the route from Tunbridge Wells to Bourne End was nevertheless sufficient to call to her mind every detail of what she had seen and heard that afternoon . |
| 14 | Her body was weary but her brain was buzzing , trying to make sense of everything she 'd seen and heard that day . |
| 15 | Having seen and made many changes in their time , the Kings retired five years ago — though only as far as next door , and the sign above the shop still says King , maintaining the links back to 1870 and before . |
| 16 | It 's one thing to be seen on the hill , but quite another to be seen and have other climbers throw rocks at you . |
| 17 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 18 | They may be seen as lacking basic training which can be rectified by the intervention of psychiatrists , psychologists , social workers , probation workers or other similar welfare professionals . |
| 19 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 20 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 21 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 22 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 23 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 24 | Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output . |
| 25 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 26 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |
| 27 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 28 | Including Irish women — six of the forty fell into this category — might be seen as contradicting this objective . |
| 29 | The professionalisation of management in the late 1950s and early 1960s coincided with other economic trends , which may be seen as providing fertile ground for the seeds of the search industry . |
| 30 | An informal survey of the lunchtime customers suggests that the hotel is well established as a meeting place and that the lunches are seen as providing good value . |