Example sentences of "see [noun pl] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policies are formulated with the implementation process in minds and often it is more realistic to see policies as products of implementation rather than as ‘ top-down ’ inputs into the process . |
| 2 | By doing this we may begin to see products that people will want to buy and use . |
| 3 | And I do n't think it 's good for the game to see defenders and keepers under so much pressure that they repeatedly end up booting the ball into the stand . ’ |
| 4 | It seems to be working … more families are already making the long trip to see husbands and fathers |
| 5 | Instead of seeing parties and pressures as enhancing of things they talked in terms of adversary party politics and an overload of interest group demands having harmful effects both politically and economically . |
| 6 | Our vision is to build bridges between the church and the community and to see kids and adults coming to faith in Jesus that will last . |
| 7 | We need to develop techniques to allow tourists to see animals and plants , without destroying them ; to devise systems of farming that deliberately create opportunities for wildlife , and to design our cities with wildlife in mind . |
| 8 | Legal forms not only constitute gender relations but represent ways of seeing roles and relations . |
| 9 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |
| 10 | So it was a shock this morning , after miles of deserted sands , to come into a small crowded bay : to see buckets and spades and sandcastles , a parade of shops with fishing nets and beach balls and to return to a world of people . |
| 11 | The eye begins eventually to see pockets and spaces within the greys , the whites , the after-images of after-images of vibrant , sumptuous colour : the bands then begin to buckle and warp , blend into each other ; a kind of visual melt-down occurs as the retina tries to encompass this searing tension . |
| 12 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 13 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 14 | Never having seen firearms or horses before , the Aztecs regarded these things not only as supernatural , but as confirmation of Cortés 's divine status — of his identity as an avatar of their supreme god , Quetzalcoatl . |
| 15 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 16 | Now that Mr Kinnock is achieving the same effect , ought this not to attract the modest admiration of an opponent whose vision of British politics has , in any case , always seen Republicans and Democrats — capitalist parties both — as the model which a well-ordered , post-Thatcherite country should emulate ? |
| 17 | He had seen things that Oliver longed to see . |
| 18 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 19 | Now Penrhyn , operated by Alfred McAlpine , has seen profits and production increase fourfold in five years , and 400 are employed . |
| 20 | I 've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench , and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands . ’ |
| 21 | I have seen men and women betray and kill each other without batting an eyelid . |
| 22 | He had fulfilled , he had discharged his mission , he had preached the gospel he had seen men and women coming to Jesus Christ , he had seen the mi mi miracles happening he had baptized those who have put faith in Jesus , and now , you see , it 's not a one man show , there was , there was a leadersh , there was a team involved here . |
| 23 | If that is true , as I hope it is , it may well be that the long-term trend of unemployment , which has seen troughs and peaks rising over the past 30 or 40 years with every trough and every peak getting higher , will turn round so that the peak of unemployment will be considerably lower than the last peak of unemployment . |
| 24 | Because of this Marx concluded that it was wrong to see ideas and values simply as adaptations of the individual to natural conditions , as some eighteenthand nineteenth-century philosophers seemed to believe . |
| 25 | Some might see dangers and difficulties in discussing reunification , but it could not be left off the agenda . |
| 26 | Seated beside Miss Jarman on the faded red-leather seat , she could see houses and shops and people passing the window , and a certain pleasure added to her nervous apprehension . |
| 27 | When thoo gets to t'bottom , thoo 'll see t'buildings and stable-yard . |
| 28 | A spot like ‘ The Pit ’ , a jealously guarded beach near Porthtowan , will see teenagers and fathers sitting out in the line-up together . |
| 29 | The knowledge that we would not see restaurants or hotels for some time gave a poignancy to our days in Aswan . |
| 30 | Guests at the Manchester hotel will see souvenirs and reminders from the company 's most popular programmes . |