Example sentences of "see [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 2 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going upstairs to see about the children . ’ |
| 4 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 5 | Worth seeing for the performances , especially those of George T Odom , Ann D Sanders and Rich himself . |
| 6 | If that happens , the troops will be allowed to use their 45 heavily armoured 30-ton Warrior carriers to see off the attackers . |
| 7 | And apart from Carling and Probyn , there is another Englishman desperate to see off the Wallabies — Blackheath blindside Mick Skinner who returns to Twickenham determined to show England 's management that he is still worthy of consideration . |
| 8 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 9 | I think I need a man older than myself because I always seem to see through the boys I meet . |
| 10 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 11 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 12 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 13 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 14 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 15 | The power of this engine can be seen during the decades following World War Two , when , despite a bipartisan political approach aimed at mitigation , class differences on many fronts remained as wide as ever . |
| 16 | In many ways , the hygienists can be seen as the heirs of the Evangelicals ; here again , this trend of social attitudes towards infant care must be set in its broader context . |
| 17 | While collaboration between the teacher and the school librarian is essential in the design of the database , the selection and indexing of information and resources , and the construction and maintenance of a database are usually seen as the tasks of the school librarian . |
| 18 | Graduated separatism , the acceptable face of separatism , can be seen as the ripples which pass outwards from this . |
| 19 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 20 | Derry are clearly seen as the bridesmaids among the five clubs battling frantically for European football next season . |
| 21 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 22 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 23 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 24 | The other side of the divide-and-rule thesis is that working-class racists are seen as the dupes of ‘ bourgeois propaganda ’ . |
| 25 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 26 | But Marx argued that falling rates of profit are an ironic consequence of investment in capital goods , which in the labour theory of value are seen as the products of past labour power , a stock of ‘ dead labour ’ . |
| 27 | Miners par excellence , depending which side you are on , are seen as the satyrs or the saviours of the working class , they are either the devils or the messiahs who will lead us out of the land of Canaan . |
| 28 | Assessment and case management can be seen as the cornerstones of a policy which is directed to achieve a degree of ‘ downward substitution ’ at the margin between settings . |
| 29 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 30 | In the medieval period these were seen as the custodians of an orthodoxy which was felt to be , if only potentially , challenged by self-authenticating mystical writings — a custodial role which seems to have lingered into the twentieth century . |