Example sentences of "see the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 2 | He would also like to see the hierarchy between professors and younger scientists , stronger in Germany than in the UK and US , broken down a little . |
| 3 | In the present climate it is hard to see the function of strikes except in public-sector monopolies . |
| 4 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 5 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 6 | If you give a deaf person the score of a piece by Bach or Mozart , he can learn to see the composition of themes and their recurrence but not why this is so marvellous because he can not feel it . |
| 7 | This pleased those who feared big tax increases , but disappointed the fiscal purists who hoped to see the removal of anomalies . |
| 8 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 9 | When they were round the corner , it was impossible to see the heap of trees and rocks . |
| 10 | It is normally placed at the point where sexual arousal is dependent on the element of pain ( inflicted or received ) , but it is not hard to see the variety of ways in which either sadistic or masochistic tendency of any marked degree can affect life-style and relationships even without its overt expression . |
| 11 | The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find . |
| 12 | So we can expect to see the evolution of organs and contrivances that serve the whole plant . |
| 13 | Both parents should , if possible , be brought to see the essentiality of relationships which are as smooth as possible if the child is not to be affected . |
| 14 | It 's suggested that you should linger on the great avenues and squares in the morning and afternoon , to see the swarms of officials and experts who administer the universe hurrying to and from their offices ; or sit a while in the shady walks of the various public gardens , and watch these same officials ' wives proudly taking the baby out for an airing . |
| 15 | ‘ Presumably whoever gives you the commissions must come here to see the kind of things you do ? ’ |
| 16 | These freedoms are clearly of importance in the face of the public power of the state , but they give small comfort to those who would like to see the position of individuals strengthened in relation to the exercise of private power in the economy . |
| 17 | As a result of the burgeoning international network , many of the European staff came frequently to Wales to see the centre of operations . |
| 18 | It was magical in June , at Towyn , to see the faces of youngsters who had boarded a two-coach DMU headed by No. 75069 . |
| 19 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 20 | Now we have to go to Normandy to get an idea of what those hamlets and farmsteads looked like in apple-blossom-time fifty years ago , and to see the profusion of wildflowers that once filled the hedgerows and verges . |
| 21 | Peasants might share their longing to see the abolition of taxes and noble landownership , but they could make little of the more visionary socialist elements of the young radicals ' propaganda , or indeed of their attacks on the revered Tsar . |
| 22 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 23 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 24 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 25 | Improved microscopic methods and new synthetic staining materials from the German chemical industry made it possible to see the parasite in films of blood from malarial patients . |
| 26 | Any adult who has been concerned with the design of type has re-experienced the need to see the importance of features ( thin and thick strokes , serifs , and so on ) of which they were previously unaware . |
| 27 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 28 | He did n't seem to see the crowd of mothers and children watching him . |
| 29 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 30 | Many women apply for and enter our courses and we are keen to see the numbers of women increase still further . |