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

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1 At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit .
2 Seeing the Houses of Parliament , or even a debate in the Chamber , does not explain how we are governed .
3 Seeing the look of dismay on her mother 's face , Tamar continued , ‘ You wo n't be telling a lie .
4 Seeing the look of pain on my driver 's face , I asked him what had become of Eileen , ‘ The Girl from County Donegal ’ , possessor of one of the purest ballad voices I know , with a hint of Irish mischief .
5 Seeing the expression of surprise on my face , he adds , ‘ It was bound to happen sometime , you know . ’
6 Look , do n't do this to me , Anne , ’ she added , seeing the expression of surprise on her friend 's face .
7 She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’
8 For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform .
9 Seeing the flash of anger in Drew 's eyes , Bas tactfully enquired after the baby .
10 Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states .
11 Doggett , seeing the flicker of irritation on Sharpe 's face , justified his question .
12 The excitement is contagious , with many new birds arriving and performing the mobbing display without even seeing the bird of prey that is causing the commotion .
13 Erm you know , some people would say you know , er seeing the kind of publicity that has had , that it would be it might be quite risky to er to o open the business of a building society here .
14 So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl .
15 The events are described from the standpoint of an observer seeing the development of creation around him .
16 They believe that the approval of others only shows how great they are , seeing the loss of self-will as a form of rape .
17 Seeing the clawtrack of star
18 Seeing the convergence of communism and fascism took a kind of intelligence that Joyce and Eliot did not have , and one they might not much have respected .
19 But he is right in seeing the movement of criticism from literature to the academy as having large cultural implications .
20 The government set about ‘ freeing private enterprise ’ through a number of legislative and administrative changes , the major ones seeing the introduction of Enterprise Zones ( EZs ) , Urban Development Corporations ( UDCs ) and Freeports .
21 Not being a parent , I have not had the experience of seeing the miracle of birth and feeling that curious way which mixes realisation of one 's own mortality with the creation of new life .
22 If they are , your phone call will merely be a slight irritant , but if there is no appropriate slot at that particular time your call could cause enough irritation to prevent the material ever seeing the light of day .
23 ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser .
24 Kirov 's eyes bored into the bright , expanded pupils of his comrade , seeing the joy of life and living which they rejected , and feeling the icy coldness of death which he bore to extinguish it .
25 And suddenly , erm very probably , by er unreasonable behaviour of some of the operators , we are seeing the emission of shock waves to the market which actually are extremely negative for the economy of the community as a whole , and for the oil world er as well .
26 She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her .
27 Seeing no conflict of interest in this , or any serious ethical problem in working covertly for the DEA , Mills joined the rest of the press corps on Hurley 's freelance payroll and subsequently turned in some useful photo coverage of illegal port facilities in Lebanon .
28 In 1769 he obtained a cadetship in the East India Company 's army at Madras , made the journey to India , but seeing no prospect of advancement there , returned to London via China .
29 But seeing a look of sympathy , she replied : ‘ Yes , that 's right .
30 Forbes sought for general patterns in the distribution of living and extinct organisms , seeing a kind of polarity which governed the production of new types during past epochs .
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