Example sentences of "see the [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tate saw clearly the point at issue : ‘ Mr Eliot 's critics are a little less able each year to see the poetry for Westminster Abbey ; the wood is all trees ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It is easy to see the reasons for pessimism , ’ says an editorial . |
| 3 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 4 | What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies . |
| 5 | He was quick to see the possibilities for travel which the newly invented railways presented , and he reacted speedily when the SS Great Britain ran aground in Dundrum Bay by organizing an excursion to view the stranded ship in 1847 . |
| 6 | Even on a clear day in the country , you can look along the tube there , along from Auntie Muriel 's , and not be able to see the city for smog . |
| 7 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 8 | You 've seen the advert for KitKat have n't you where they have a little break sitting in the back of the van and the settee 's on the floor and the carpet 's on the floor and there 's a a lamp in there and there 's a piece of furni to one side . |
| 9 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 10 | Having seen the need for NEAS , the coordinator now sits on the steering committee for the development of the Sunderland Enterprise Centre where NEAS will be one of the business advice services . |
| 11 | ’ He sees the struggle for definition as ‘ veritably the struggle for life itself ’ , and that to perceive oneself for oneself is a matter of life and death : ‘ In short , he who first seizes the word imposes reality on the other : he who defines thus dominates and lives ; and he who is defined is subjugated and may be killed . ’ |
| 12 | But he also sees the need for guarantees on employment conditions there . |
| 13 | ‘ I am delighted he has agreed to the council 's request and sees the need for urgency , ’ he said . |
| 14 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 15 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 16 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 17 | Q. How do you see the outlook for Courtaulds ' markets this year ? |
| 18 | ‘ If you watch how the lightning touches the water , you 'll see the need for caution . |
| 19 | But heads do nevertheless need to say what has to be changed from time to time — and should see the need for change before their colleagues . |
| 20 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 21 | We went into the village of that 's right , we went to , saw the signpost for Bray , they said , when you come al , along the road , erm you 'll find a signpost before the motorway , er , sign for the motorway on yo , to , to , to Bray . |
| 22 | I looked round as we crossed a road ; I saw the sign for Union Street where it was fixed to a low wall . |
| 23 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 24 | It is interesting that Cairns saw the pressure for ministers to run for office coming , not from ambitious ministers , but from party activists who thought that certain ministers would make good political leaders . |
| 25 | Canals were not built in pursuit of a grand national design , although Brindley clearly saw the possibilities for expansion and a number of key " trunk " canals had been cut . |
| 26 | He saw the need for education in most of the small towns , and in Ambleside suggested plans for the employment of the workless . |
| 27 | He did not wish to upset people ; he saw the need for discretion . |
| 28 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 29 | The carrot took the form of education and the Jesuits saw the potential for music and the theatre to get their message across to the masses . |
| 30 | ‘ We saw the potential for growth and are aiming to become the UK 's chief financial printer managed from Scotland . ’ |