Example sentences of "see the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
| 2 | Indeed , the previous reference to " all flesh " in v. 5 as being about to see the glory of Yahweh could have created an expectation that the image in v. 6 will be positive rather than negative . |
| 3 | It is all too easy to see the development of France in terms of an inexorable and inevitable process of expansion from early beginnings in the Ile de France around Paris to the country we know today . |
| 4 | Being subjected to it , Offred is in a very good position — literally — to see the hypocrisy of tyranny from underneath . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 6 | In the end I went to see the computer with Hee-Haw and the robot . |
| 7 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 8 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | If the trade unions want to exercise that right , they will have to get the legal title to them whether by purchase or by what has been called euphemistically , and in criticism of Robert Owen 's failure to see the significance of ownership , ‘ revolutionising practice ’ . |
| 11 | It took the formidable Madrid neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal to see the significance of Golgi 's achievement ( he too got a Nobel Prize , though Golgi apparently refused to accept Cajal 's interpretation — or even to speak to him ) . |
| 12 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 13 | We are now in a position to see the significance of government expenditure and taxation flows in the determination of national income levels . |
| 14 | Visitors were able to see the versatility of design and product range by a display which portrayed the four themes of shipping , hotel and leisure , pubs and commercial interiors . |
| 15 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 16 | 1881 Caption — Mamma ( to Mabel , who has expressed a desire to see the boundary of Sussex and Surrey ) . |
| 17 | To see the reasonableness of Ross 's claim one need only consider a case of which Ross made much , that of the duty of promise keeping . |
| 18 | In March computer and information services specialists from all over Scotland and Tyneside converged on the Stirling Management Centre to see the CWIS in action and to hear how it had been put together . |
| 19 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the cars of the beau monde arrived to see the spectacle of Mosley in action , their passengers discovered — as Lord Trenchard complained — that they were surrounded by a jeering crowd of protesters . |
| 23 | In the present climate it is hard to see the function of strikes except in public-sector monopolies . |
| 24 | This plan was an impossibility from the outset , and after several months of confused meetings of everyone concerned at County Hall , I went with two or three others to see the Secretary of State to recommend strongly that one single statutory authority should be appointed to deal with the area . |
| 25 | The chamber of commerce , the local authority , the trade unions and the Members of Parliament came down to London to see the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | I am pleased to see the Secretary of State for Social Security in his place , because he has said that the decision in January 1991 to stop such payments was taken because ’ It has never been the intention , nor is it sensible , that in the generality of cases Housing Benefit should be available as an alternative to income support ’ . |
| 27 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 28 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |