Example sentences of "they see [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they seen as disloyal and personal attacks on you and the school , or are they seen as growth points for development and marketing ? |
| 2 | There was no evidence of a plot and liberals were disgusted by what they saw as panic action by Palmer . |
| 3 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 4 | Our Young Old Age they saw as Senility ; our Old Old Age was beyond the focus of their conventional wisdom . |
| 5 | If the bullet-proof vest is unnecessary , Holyfield 's handlers were sufficiently spooked by what they saw on Halloween night to scrap plans to fight in London , especially after the Bruno-style support afforded Lewis . |
| 6 | Durham will meet up again with two Essex players they saw on tour seamer Don Topley , who was the Zimbabwe coach , and off-spinner Peter Such , who was the professional at Bulawayo . |
| 7 | The provocative , practised performer they saw on stage that night was a niece to be proud of . |
| 8 | Its extension would now oblige the left to find new ways of campaigning among party members , because they tended to cast their votes according to what they saw on television . |
| 9 | The most coward and yet everybody you spoke to s s thought that was a good thing , because they believed everything they saw on television right until the girl that was the actress that cried on television and said he pulled the plugs out of the incubators for the babies , and she was an actress and yet that was head headline news . |
| 10 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 11 | On the Shankhill Road they saw by accident a person whom Joan had talked with during the WLAA campaign for legal justice . |
| 12 | The result has been a steady decline in membership as members began to demand the type of facilities that they saw in squash and golf clubs . |
| 13 | Informed by Western socialism , they saw in capitalism a brutal form of exploitation . |
| 14 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 15 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 16 | THE BBC 's Halloween programme Ghostwatch is proof that viewers do react to what they see on TV . |
| 17 | ( What the NCC calls ‘ the Augusta effect ’ , caused by clubs trying too hard to emulate what they see on TV . ) |
| 18 | They know how to imitate scenes they see on TV , but not how to generate their own imaginative games . |
| 19 | Those members of the public who have not had an opportunity to experience contact with the mentally handicapped except in the most superficial way inevitably draw their opinions from the concepts portrayed in the mass media and , above all , from what they see on television . |
| 20 | Lord Merlyn-Rees , a former Labour minister , suggested children are copying what they see on television , while the Conservatives ' Kenneth Baker claimed children faced a moral vacuum and that television and film are at least partly to blame . |
| 21 | In this view , people do not directly act out what they see on screen , but treat porn as a means of wish fulfilment . |
| 22 | Things that they see as blanket oppression , I would see as possible sources of strength , such as arranged marriages . |
| 23 | The attitude of employers is one of annoyance at what they see as government interference for electoral purposes . |
| 24 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 25 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 26 | Town hall chiefs in Birmingham must save £40 million to stay within charge-capping limits , which they see as part of a Tory vendetta . |
| 27 | It 's the second time in a week that officers from Thames Valley police have spoken out about what they see as abuse of the judicial system . |
| 28 | Something I notice in England is that people always try to make sense of what they see in theatre . |
| 29 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 30 | Woman-centred psychologists are also interested in language and the unconscious , in spite of the misogyny which they see in linguistics and psychoanalysis . |