Example sentences of "see them [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 4 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 7 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 8 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 9 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 10 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 11 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 12 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 13 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 14 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 15 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 16 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 17 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 18 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 21 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 22 | Oh gosh , I have n't seen them for a |
| 23 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 25 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 26 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 27 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 28 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 29 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 30 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |