Example sentences of "see [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 2 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 3 | We are encouraged to see murder as a particular act involving a very limited range of stereotypical actors , instruments , situations , and motives . |
| 4 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 5 | We must consider what leads young men — it is predominantly young men — to see crime as a better outlet for their abilities and energies than lawful activity . |
| 6 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 7 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 8 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 10 | This view might be too romantic for some who prefer to see sport as a destructive force , leaving black kids , their hopes shattered , with no qualifications , few prospects and little career orientation . |
| 11 | Farmers were slow to see management as an area where training could help but as more became aware of their own shortcomings there was an increase in requests for one-day courses . |
| 12 | 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ; |
| 13 | 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ; |
| 14 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 15 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 16 | This is easy for one who sees , since he already possesses a picture of the surface of his own body ; and , on this account , he now , by means of the unchanging local sign , even in the dark , translates each stimulus which he has once seen act on a definite place , to the same place in this picture of the body which is mentally presented before him . ’ |
| 17 | Following what has become known as the " Halévy thesis " , historians have more readily seen Methodism as a force for stability against " the threat of revolution " than as one which worked for it . |
| 18 | The principle was , they believed , shown in the continuity from the solid state through gases to the ether in which light travelled ; it connected this seen universe with an unseen one , permanent and underlying this declining world . |
| 19 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 20 | It 's seen service as a transporter in every action the airforce has been involved in since 1967 . |
| 21 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 22 | The post-war changes were designed to encourage equality for all , but successive governments appear to have seen education as a vote winner and have made promises which they have failed to keep . |
| 23 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 24 | Other sociologists have seen stratification as a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 25 | Lou has never seen love as a sufficient motive for anyone doing anything , which , when it comes to it , I daresay is why I left . |
| 26 | Ever since their days as left-leaning indie rockers , The Shamen have always seen music as a medium for communicating ideas . |
| 27 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 28 | ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’ |
| 29 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 30 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |