Example sentences of "see the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelmin majority of taxpayers have no wish to see the reintroduction of unfair domestic rates . |
| 2 | Indeed , the previous reference to " all flesh " in v. 5 as being about to see the glory of Yahweh could have created an expectation that the image in v. 6 will be positive rather than negative . |
| 3 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
| 4 | You are now able to see the problem from a higher perspective , knowing that you have created it for a reason . |
| 5 | The Cabinet has as members ministers who are running major departments , wanting to see the service for which they are responsible improved , but aware that collectively their joint demands could ruin their party 's chances in the next election . |
| 6 | It is possible to see the development of Minoan civilization encapsulated in the developments of the urban centres , and the administrative control of the whole territory 's economy was central tot hat urban development . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to see the development of France in terms of an inexorable and inevitable process of expansion from early beginnings in the Ile de France around Paris to the country we know today . |
| 8 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |
| 9 | I want to see the development of a European central bank emerging from the European monetary institute , in stage two , beyond 1996 . |
| 10 | In the linking-up of the threads of the topic , the flexibility of the program may provide the gradual building-up of links so that the student has a chance to see the development from various angles . |
| 11 | His eyes flickered open to see the horror on her face . |
| 12 | Melanie was shocked to see the horror on her aunt 's face . |
| 13 | ‘ Every purse has its limits , ’ he wrote , ‘ and I am beginning to see the bottom of my own . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , and you should be able to see the bottom of the rear tyres of the car in front to be able to manoeuvre round it if need be . |
| 15 | Being subjected to it , Offred is in a very good position — literally — to see the hypocrisy of tyranny from underneath . |
| 16 | My dad was called in to school to see the Headmaster about my little brother . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 18 | After the rash of Chinese shots by Western photojournalists that followed last year 's student uprising , Zeng Nian 's views of Peking come as a welcome and refreshing change , giving us the chance to see the country through Chinese eyes |
| 19 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 20 | Motorists can expect to see the decoy on any motorway in the region as it is to be moved frequently . |
| 21 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 22 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 23 | In the end I went to see the computer with Hee-Haw and the robot . |
| 24 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 25 | Michael Chapman , executive producer of the ITV hit series , said : ‘ I 'm sad to see the departure of the character DS Roach . |
| 26 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |
| 27 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 28 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 29 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 30 | Anyway , Scano 's boy must have been going to see the gamekeeper at the villa . ’ |