Example sentences of "see [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 2 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 3 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 4 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 5 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 6 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 7 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 8 | It was enough to see off the challenge of unlucky Wimbledon in this replay at Selhurst Park . |
| 9 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 10 | It is the vision of seeing through the inheritance of family emotions , the release of burdens imposed by the past , the healing of memories long since buried in one 's psyche . |
| 11 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 12 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 13 | It took application and imagination to see the point of Eastern Europe , to see through the glacier to the contours underneath . |
| 14 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 15 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 16 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 17 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 18 | In essence , then , there is far less to see of the history of industrial landscapes than there was even a few years ago . |
| 19 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 20 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 21 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |
| 22 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 23 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 24 | A relative tachycardia was seen during the procedure in many patients , and seemed to be a normal physiological response to the gastroscopy . |
| 25 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 26 | Two men in army clothes — possibly my two — could be seen about the camp from time to time , and Balfour thought that there might also be a third . |
| 27 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 28 | Um , he says , and goes on to explain that in Norway a small , useless knife sometimes seen about the person of hunters and campers who have little idea is known as a ‘ mouse castrator ’ . |
| 29 | between support staff ( such as expecting SEN staff to focus on methods of achieving ‘ educational results ’ without also attending to the interactional emotional and behavioural context of learning failure , seen as the remit of pastoral care , counselling and the psychological services ) |
| 30 | In many ways , the hygienists can be seen as the heirs of the Evangelicals ; here again , this trend of social attitudes towards infant care must be set in its broader context . |