Example sentences of "see [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went to see Antigone in Greek but although we were well primed beforehand you ca n't follow it without a crib . |
| 2 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 3 | In order to see context-dependence in conditioned suppression it will be necessary to devise a procedure in which the contribution of the inhibitory association will be negligible . |
| 4 | The late 80's have seen investment in new systems — for home shopping £35 million in the past five years on computers |
| 5 | Besides , in a place of militant social-climbing , it does n't hurt to be seen poolside with recognisable New York artists . |
| 6 | The former Today owner said he had seen documentation from Scottish financial institutions which put Knighton 's personal net worth at ‘ around £3m ’ , and added : ‘ I think he should now step aside and let somebody in who has the interests of the club at heart . ’ |
| 7 | There is usually a clearly seen demarcation between upper and lower sausage-shaped groups of glands , which has aptly been named the ‘ sign of the groove ’ . |
| 8 | Shelley was disappointed not to have seen Miguelito at close quarters . |
| 9 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 10 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 11 | The Church is then left with no alternative but to see salvation in Earthly terms since it has abandoned faith in a collective spiritual kingdom and relies on a shaky humanist spirituality . |
| 12 | If the Government was seriously concerned with the burning of carbon fuels , we would see investment in alternative methods of energy production and transport . |
| 13 | The use of the Soviet army for this purpose ( for example in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan ) gave rise to much dissatisfaction among the troops themselves , who did not see action against Soviet citizens as part of their role . |
| 14 | The road was now backing west towards the sea , and towards the place where I fancied we might see evidence of major geophysics at work . |
| 15 | Where the Marxist identifies penetration of the periphery by capitalist values and roles as an aspect of the contradictions within capitalism , the pluralist sees diffusion of central values as a force overriding the immediate disagreements : |
| 16 | There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters . |
| 17 | This vision of society contrasts with that of Marxism , which sees power in capitalist society as concentrated in the hands of the ( bourgeois ) ruling class , and society as primarily divided into two great opposing classes rather than a motley of interacting interest groups . |
| 18 | Like Marx , Weber sees class in economic terms . |
| 19 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 20 | But there is no substitute for a visit , and a request to see evidence of previous exam results . |
| 21 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 22 | Seeing red over green tax |
| 23 | CABs would wish to see enforcement by private bailiffs abolished . |
| 24 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 25 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
| 26 | By the first decade of the twentieth century the majority of medics saw return to enforced regulation of VD as out of the question . |
| 27 | Westmacott saw tracer at low level in the direction of Luqa and thought it was fire from an enemy aircraft — in fact it was the airfield 's own machine guns engaging the intruder . |
| 28 | The honoured guest sampled Victorian travel beforehand by travelling to the exhibition along the museum 's authentic tramway period street in a vintage horse-drawn four-wheeled tram that saw service in nearby Chesterfield . |
| 29 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
| 30 | This period saw experimentation with rational techniques such as Planning , Programming and Budgeting Systems ( PPBS ) . |