Example sentences of "they see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group reflect what they see of the sufferer 's assets and defects ( never defects alone ) and he or she is helped towards the recognition that his or her previous life truly had become unmanageable and that he or she had tried desperately to control everything but was finally having to admit defeat and accept powerlessness . |
| 2 | Many old people here only experience what they see on the road ( out of the window ) — they would miss that ’ . |
| 3 | They inspect any other Masai they see on the track closely . |
| 4 | Maybe they ca n't pay the the 'leccy bill and they 're in rent arrears and you know it 's Christmas and the kids want everything they see on the television . |
| 5 | They do n't confuse it with what they see on the screen . |
| 6 | MOST people associate pet food with the canned meat products that they see on the TV and in local supermarkets . |
| 7 | Lord Merlyn-Rees — Home Secretary from 1976-79 — told the programme : ‘ I do believe as time goes on , watching the great influence of television on children , that they begin to believe that the normal life they lead is not normal , that what they see on the television and on the film is something they ought to emulate . ’ |
| 8 | God of all love , give vision to those dazzled by the bright lights of Christmas so that they see into the dark cribs beyond the packed inns and be the shepherd or the person of wisdom to those who have nothing to celebrate . |
| 9 | They home in on what they see as the uncontrolled nature of CID work , and sneer and begrudge the detective his apparent freedom of movement . |
| 10 | In London , a small , mixed house heard the call for a ‘ new nationalism ’ — Afrocentric , using the kind of rhetoric favoured by Malcolm X before his visit to Mecca led to less separatist views , and based on self-respect and what they see as the need to free ‘ the mindtrap ’ blocking unification of the African Diaspora . |
| 11 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 12 | They point to what they see as the devastating effect of the Exchange Rate Mechanism on keeping interest rates high and maintaining a debt-driven recession . |
| 13 | Theists grow impatient with what they see as the reductionist behaviour of atheists , whom they accuse of disproving something the theists never claimed to believe in . |
| 14 | Some women in early adulthood may feel very unmaternal and not at all sure whether they wish to burden themselves with what they see as the cares and stresses of parenthood . |
| 15 | Marxists , for example have criticised what they see as the shortcomings of both ‘ bourgeois ’ political science and sociology . |
| 16 | The not always well-focussed objections of the liberationists to talk of indirect duties reflects an intense dislike of what they see as the arrogance of thinkers like Kant and Ritchie . |
| 17 | Most vegetarians are so , I suspect , primarily because they object to the death and what they see as the suffering to which animals are consigned by meat eating . |
| 18 | Although the company is trying to limit the damage of Pettitt 's departure , Specialix competitors cite other reasons for what they see as the company 's loss of direction . |
| 19 | They are typically determined to bring about change , to introduce reforms and to reverse what they see as the mistakes of the past . |
| 20 | Nineteen members of the Centre Scientifique des Recherches Archáeologiques , the thirty-nine member body which advises on archaeological research in France , have resigned in protest at what they see as the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 21 | They 're also pretty peeved at what they see as the Ministry of Agriculture 's failure to represent their interests adequately in Brussels . |
| 22 | They disagree with the Marxist view that women 's oppression stems ultimately from capitalism , but disagree with each other in what they see as the basis of women 's oppression . |
| 23 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 24 | Wanting a context for their work , many feel a conscious need ‘ to give something back to society ’ , to justify a ‘ self-indulgent ’ pastime , avoiding what they see as the stereotype of the male artist as self-obsessed . |
| 25 | For others , what they see as the opposite approach to worship , that of questioning , ( 12 ) should be the fundamental criterion for judging effective RE . |
| 26 | In an essay on the early-music revival in Europe and America , Howard Mayer Brown noted that ‘ many English musicians … even today react strongly against what they see as the serious limitations of the English church music tradition … |
| 27 | And perhaps most controversial of all , the Greens will tackle what they see as the scourge of the motor car : |
| 28 | What becomes clear is that a parent must listen to the individual school 's advice on what they see as the best sort of homework to give and in what amounts . |
| 29 | Only about between 2 to 5 per cent of student union and NUS activity is political but right-wingers have long complained about what they see as the domination of unrepresentative Labour-supporting and left-wing groups in the NUS 's political activities . |
| 30 | This is the only way out , so the adventurers must head for it , even though they ca n't be sure that the haze and mist they see beyond the archway offers any real hope of release . |