Example sentences of "see [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend spoke earlier of his desire to see armed intervention in Yugoslavia on behalf of the Pope . |
| 3 | Do you think that there was a changeover from being practical , I mean can you remember seeing that transition from the very practical shade to the , to , to the light fitting becoming something decorative ? |
| 4 | As Stanyer ( 1976 , ch. 1 ) reminds us , it is important to see each locality as a miniature political and administrative system in its own right , a point reinforced by the Widdicombe Report ( 1986 , p. 22 ) when the committee emphasized that ‘ some of the commonly held assumptions about local government are valid only in a minority of authorities ’ . |
| 5 | But we do n't get to see each other at the choir |
| 6 | Cummings further suggests that certain aspects should be looked in selecting software in order to encourage conversation and pupils to see each other as resources : 1 . |
| 7 | The firm 's new Personal Video System Model 70 enables users working in a Microsoft Corp Windows environment to see each other in a scalable video window as they talk and simultaneously collaborate on computer documents . |
| 8 | While network users currently can communicate online with colleagues using text inputs to their computers , videoconferencing facilities will enable users to see each other in a video window in their screens . |
| 9 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 10 | ‘ They want to see economic development in the local area for them ’ . |
| 11 | Apollinaire appeared to see complete abstraction as the goal . |
| 12 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 13 | One has only to look around to see Labour government in action in London . |
| 14 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) was reported to see little hope of repatriating some 95,000 Sierra Leonean refugees trapped in northern Liberia by the latest intensification of the war . |
| 15 | Sensitivity to the forces lying beneath the surface , seeing subtle connections between parts of the landscape that seem separate to us , would lead them inevitably to what we would call a form of astrology . |
| 16 | The man schooled to regard policy questions in technical terms and to see controversial matters of principle in terms of party management has been learning that he is a Tory . |
| 17 | If there is no preparedness to see extensive nationalization of the worst offending corporations and if there is no political or national will to place public officials on the boards of directors to guarantee that ‘ our ’ interests are given as much consideration as those of the corporation , then clearly the will to control corporations has atrophied in the withering light of pragmatism . |
| 18 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 19 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 20 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 21 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 22 | There are things around this , that I wonder what on earth we 're doing and what is the best way forward and I would like to see that kind of report come back to us . |
| 23 | Erm I think they , I think they do that during the day and then in the evening it 's on for anybody else who wants to see that take-off on cheeses . |
| 24 | ‘ He was waiting to see that man at the factory long before then . |
| 25 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 26 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 27 | The incident may have happened nineteen hundred years ago there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says , the dying thief rejoice to see that fountain in his day , and there may I , though he wash all my sins away . |
| 28 | I 'd love to see that example of his Collected Works ! ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 30 | ‘ To allow me to see that woman in the land . |