Example sentences of "see [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 2 | Such changes can be seen off the Kent coast with the cementing of the Isle of Thanet to the mainland and the silting up of the Wantsum Channel in post-Roman times . |
| 3 | Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government . |
| 4 | Indeed , improved managerial efficiency can be seen as the Thatcher government 's alternative solution ‘ for those parts of the public sector that could not be privatised or subjected to the sanitizing forces of the market ’ . |
| 5 | Similarly Henry V was seen as the Judas Maccabeus of his day who , faced by great odds at Agincourt , worried little about his lack of forces but trusted in the rightness of his cause , the piety of his people at home praying for him and for his army , and in divine strength . |
| 6 | We have to get nuclear power seen as the Volvo of the power industry : safe , efficient and reliable . |
| 7 | We report on fathers and fetuses ; music ; the universe as seen through the Hubble space telescope ; and the resurrection of the dead , as seen by an imaginative cosmologist |
| 8 | Literally thousands of patches of old lazy-beds can be seen throughout the Hebrides today as a clear testimony to land pressure , especially in the 19th century . |
| 9 | Will SSDs run out of money as the financial year progresses , as has been seen with the NHS reforms ? |
| 10 | As we have seen with the Oedipus myth , the final move in revealing its meaning informs the anthropologist about features of the culture that are beyond the content of the myth . |
| 11 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 12 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 13 | The six-and-a-half-hour evacuation operation , the biggest ever seen in the North Sea , involved 14 Puma helicopters making 23 flights . |
| 14 | He explained away the list of things that Waddell had seen in the Ross 's house as having been published at the trial or in the newspapers , which was not the case . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher is still seen in the United States as the staunchest of its allies . |
| 16 | Like chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum , granuloma inguinale is not commonly seen in the United Kingdom , there being only sixteen cases reported in 1976 . |
| 17 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 18 | This contrasts with the decline in popular and Congressional support seen in the United States after the Apollo moon landing space spectaculars around 1970 . |
| 19 | Leading examples of this form of government can be seen in the United States , Canada , Australia and West Germany . |
| 20 | This is particularly evident around Somerton , but can also be seen in the Bath area . |
| 21 | One was seen in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes between 8 and 17 February 1958 . |
| 22 | Work by this Swiss artist a direct heir of Dada and Futurism , can be seen in the Kunsthalle section of the exhibition . |
| 23 | For there was not one gunman to be seen in the Bekaa . |
| 24 | It is also seen in the Simmental , which developed its own white face independently . |
| 25 | Output : The decline in output was greater than seen in the July survey and worse than had been anticipated , with a balance of 20pc of firms reporting a fall . |
| 26 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 27 | The works of painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko show the same ability to leap the boundaries between the space of the painting and that which the audience occupies , so clearly seen in the Nymphéas paintings in the marmottan Museum . |
| 28 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |
| 29 | A more recent example of population loss is to be seen in the Wells area of north Norfolk ( Drudy and Wallace 1971 ) . |
| 30 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |