Example sentences of "we see a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the latter decades of the century we see a firm assault on the masturbating child and a growing concern with male homosexuality . |
| 2 | This complex statement need not be analysed here but just think how often we see a certain politician , good though he may be , declared as " never coming across on the TV " . |
| 3 | When we look at a house in the distance and we see a small house — say half an inch high — surrounded by trees two inches high , we are not fooled into perceiving them as small . |
| 4 | her we see a typical day in the life of the Army Catering Corps . |
| 5 | We see a striking difference between the red helleborine orchid and the blue bellflower . |
| 6 | In that early work , memorably presented on TV and radio , we see a monolithic state organisation attempting to replace the existing vernacular with a synthetic language , Ptydepe , that will iron out the ambiguities and imprecisions of everyday speech . |
| 7 | Here in Britain we see a major role as key worker , or care manager , coordinating welfare services as well as health care . |
| 8 | When we see a distant galaxy we 're not seeing it as it is today , we 're seeing it as it was a long time ago . |
| 9 | Gone now is the stylized shroud , for here we see a naturalistic figure , almost a portrait , wrapped in a very convincing linen sheet . |
| 10 | Against a background of dark red we see a blue monkey gathering crocuses into a pot . |
| 11 | ‘ But there is a problem for the Welsh Highland 1964 Ltd have set their hearts on starting the railway at Porthmadog towards Pont Croesor and Beddgelert whereas we see a great opportunity to start the railway at the Caernarfon towards this end . ’ |
| 12 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 13 | Again , then , we see a close interweaving of the two features of academic life . |
| 14 | It is only in flatter , smaller organizational units that we see a sharp decrease in both the game-playing and the filtering . |
| 15 | When we turn to the third section of Figure 1.10 , we see a wide range of devices for receiving information from the outside world , for transmitting information to the outside world , and for expanding the storage capacity of the computer . |
| 16 | Yes , we see a good deal of Henrietta . ’ |
| 17 | If we look at them carefully we see a faint band in it but we ca n't count the bands this way , we can see them much better with X- rays . |
| 18 | We see a different connection , because of the knife wounds … |
| 19 | In the West we see a different pattern . |
| 20 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 21 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 22 | Likewise , Willie Doherty 's commitment to questions of Irishness is evident in his tape-slide in which we see a single image of a man 's face and become increasingly insecure as to his identity and the meaning of this image as poetic spoken comments shift in implication . |
| 23 | He also plays a Django-type line , similar to the phrase shown in fig 9 , in which we see a descending series of trills ( fast hammer-on/pull offs ) . |
| 24 | When we are very young we see a fluffy kitten as something especially soft and cuddly and we have a strong desire to pick it up and hold it tight . |
| 25 | The macabre cadaver is not the chosen depiction — rather we see a fresh corpse , almost as though we are viewing him immediately after his shrouding . |
| 26 | Another point which has n't been taken up , despite us being invited to is why is the Greater York area the size that it is , and this is a point that the Senior Inspector raised , er in other towns and cities , I 'm thinking particularly of Exeter for example , the districts have looked at supplying their city based land supply problems on a journey to work area , now that area would be significantly greater than we 're looking at here , and it seems to me in this location er where we see a potential abundance of supply beyond the strict confines of the Greater York area is a very apposite question to ask , why is the Greater York area the area that it is ? |
| 27 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 28 | And we see a beautiful picture here of God 's provision for us , as we come into his family . |
| 29 | Here we see a characteristic attempt , evident on a range of fronts , to break down the dualisms of normativism . |
| 30 | In the House of Lords ' decision we see a fundamental principle emerge . |