Example sentences of "see [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were accepted for endoscopic injection if an active bleeder ( spurter or oozer ) was seen during an emergency endoscopic examination after resuscitation . |
| 2 | A number of black children , particularly boys , seem to lose interest in the school 's aims ( unless they are good at games , then they dissociate that from the rest ) in the third year and , from then , become increasingly seen as an anti-culture … probably the most striking manifestation of West Indian pupils , is just that group of large boys , and the sort of threatening physical presence , which you can see consistently around the school . |
| 3 | In the Gospel faith is seen as an act of trust by which a person relies not on himself or herself but on Jesus . |
| 4 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 5 | It was seen as an act of prudence . |
| 6 | This could be seen as an approximation to a Ramsey-optimal price structure , though the analogy is probably rather forced . |
| 7 | Hence it is worth explaining , in a way that elsewhere might not be necessary and would be seen as an indulgence , that in our case , once permission was granted , no limits were laid down by senior officers and no censorship role has been retained by the RUC over the final manuscript . |
| 8 | The pylorus is seen as an incisure ( p ) , and shows closure of the viscus . |
| 9 | In this subject the stomach is crescent shaped and the pylorus can be seen as an incisure at its distal end ( arrowed ) . |
| 10 | Also in America there is the singular example of Yvor Winters , sometimes seen as an equivalent of Leavis , who was a poet of conservative but original talents , and a fiercely judgemental critic , who weirdly redrew the canons of English and American literature , so that T. Sturge Moore and Elizabeth Daryush emerged as major twentieth-century poets . |
| 11 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 12 | Investment is seen as an activity of firms . |
| 13 | The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters . |
| 14 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 15 | Because grants to courtiers came to be seen as an abuse , monopolies to individuals were prohibited in 1624 , but corporations could still receive them and they continued to be the basis for trade outside Europe in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | In all these market phases , the producer could still be seen as an originator , though in practice , throughout , there were qualifications . |
| 17 | Not every reflux event detected by a fall in pH was seen as an increase in counts as a result of reflux of food , and vice versa . |
| 18 | Not every reflux event detected , however , by a fall in pH to less than 4 was seen as an increase in counts because of reflux of food , and vice versa . |
| 19 | Investors have argued that the involvement of the French government , which provided cheap land and finance for , and is promising a rail link to , the project , is seen as an insurance project . |
| 20 | Furnish your home in this adventurous style and you will be seen as an innovator . |
| 21 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the data were based on assessments made by care staff ; in the public sector staff have an incentive to minimise the dependency of their clients as it is seen as an index of the quality of care being provided . |
| 23 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 24 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 25 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 26 | Art is seen as an exercise in fine motor skills or appreciation of nature and not as a creative activity . |
| 27 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 28 | Thus , the degree of fit between phonological choice and network structure may be seen as an issue quite separate from the absolute level of use of a particular range of variants . |
| 29 | I think it 's very undesirable that it should be seen as an issue of women versus men , because the chances of getting anywhere are reduced if it 's set up in that way . |
| 30 | When the CNAA consulted its related institutions and others about the future guidelines for the DipHE many of the polytechnics pointed out that the emphasis on an ‘ interlock ’ between the Diploma and degree programmes prevented the Diploma from being seen as an award in its own right , and devalued it : it appeared to be a failed degree . |