Example sentences of "seen [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 2 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 3 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 4 | The main effect is seen during the prepatent phase , when the larvae are in the mucosa . |
| 5 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 6 | This is seen as the great strength of the market order and an important condition for freedom : there is agreement on means but not ends , which makes it possible for society to reconcile the differing purposes of individuals within a catallaxy which is purely economic . |
| 7 | The effect of this can be seen as the compiled code for VAX is typically smaller than PDP-11 code . |
| 8 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 9 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 10 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 11 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 12 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 13 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 14 | The intent behind these changes within the Labour Party constitution spills over to pose a challenge to the kind of democracy that has been seen as the essential hallmark of the liberal-democratic British constitution . |
| 15 | For methodological reasons , it is important to distinguish between this and the socially based interpretation of the results , because if the social factors involved are seen as the motivating principle for the selection and analysis of linguistic variables , the investigators may be accused of biased selectivity and circularity . |
| 16 | In other words , we need to identify areas of schematic knowledge which the learners will accept as independently relevant and worth acquiring so that the learning of the language is seen as the necessary means to a desired end . |
| 17 | On the one hand , large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism . |
| 18 | When CDC 's intention became clear , it was approached by a variety of potential partners , Ousley says , and ‘ came very close to changing ’ its decision ( Hewlett-Packard Co being seen as the unlucky suitor ( UX Nos 381 , 384 ) ) . |
| 19 | NetWorld is in town October 13 through October 15 and it 's seen as the perfect opportunity to gather together Novell 's new OEMs and distributors , a subset of Novell 's Platinum and Gold resellers , for the hoopla . |
| 20 | Productivity through people : people are seen as the sole basis for success which is developed through respect for the individual expressed through trust . |
| 21 | The number of these passes was , and still is , widely seen as the sole criterion of ‘ standards ’ in education . |
| 22 | Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation . |
| 23 | Such projects , then , can produce important lessons , but there is a danger of temporary , inadequately funded special projects being seen as the sole response of adult education to the unemployment crisis . |
| 24 | Four thought Christianity should not be seen as the prevailing ethic . |
| 25 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 26 | Nationalism and its vocabulary , then , is , in my view , best seen as the mobilising talk of located élites , over the structures of the political state in their regions . |
| 27 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 28 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 29 | The communitarian state would provide those resources to in , in , to do what perhaps has been traditionally seen as the impossible , but it will require extensive support . |
| 30 | If power is a capacity to affect behaviour then influence is generally seen as the actual behaviour resulting from that capacity to affect . |