Example sentences of "see [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All the stages that Weiser finds of ‘ advance in personal knowledge ’ , a ‘ basic transition ’ here , a ‘ discovery ’ there , one which ‘ begins to dissolve ’ the speaker 's ‘ coherent identity ’ ( a development which the sceptic may see as a rationale for the failure of an analytical method ) — stages of awareness that lead to a final collapse : all this seems to me fictitious , revealing the critic 's categories rather than the poet 's .
2 Apart from what Dora would see as a disaster for her friend , her own life-style could be on the line .
3 To call someone a nutter , however , is not to use what they would see as a term of abuse .
4 Who do you see as the sort of holding responsibility for training ?
5 The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism .
6 What do you see as the role of Government in promoting UK exports and how do you feel this compares with the support received by other European businesses ?
7 What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth .
8 But Hitler made world Christianity something that for a moment even people in the pews could see as an expression of peace , and amity , and human rights , and the moral law in politics .
9 It is preferable to smack the dog with your hand rather than use a rolled-up newspaper which the dog may see as an extension of the game , especially if it gets excited and a tug-of-war ensues .
10 ‘ How odd that you did n't immediately see through a phony like Giles Denton , ’ he grated , totally ignoring her interruption , ‘ and after agreeing to take a cruise with a man you admit you hardly know , you end up in custody accused of drug-smuggling .
11 For a moment he could n't see through the train of bubbles left by the spear , which hit the fish dead centre and an inch behind the jaw hinge .
12 When en route , the HM 527 will see through an array of infrared illuminators covering an arc of about 25o .
13 Pedro How would you like to not see for a couple of days ?
14 He could scarcely see for the blur of tears behind his spectacles , but he bent to investigate a glint of metal among the dust .
15 The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ .
16 The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ .
17 But what do tourists actually see during a visit to India ?
18 My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat .
19 As you will see below a photograph of the ‘ CIBS ’ team was taken after the Charity Match , please appreciate that we are not looking our usual stunning selves , but unfortunately rouge and hairspray are not allowed on court ! — no comments please Harris …
20 I can see behind the surface of matter .
21 Hiding near the door , I could just see into the kitchen through a small uncurtained window .
22 Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe .
23 He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face .
24 They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house .
25 You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it .
26 I ca n't see into the future in the way you said your Aunt Liti could do , but I 'm certain of this , for I feel it in my bones .
27 To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own .
28 ‘ You could n't see into the office from the kitchen ? ’
29 ‘ Exceptional Navigators can see into the warp from the normal universe ! ’
30 But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it .
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