Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should we not rather be appalled at their heedless and destructive course through a world where people daily perish within sight of their conspicuous profligacy ? |
| 2 | And the Battalions , as they drop from sight , may pose one of the most serious threats to the new government of Guillermo Endara . |
| 3 | Hartlepool United , perennial prop of the Football League , currently stand within sight of Second Division football . |
| 4 | What you need is something with a bit of muscle , but which is frugal enough not to bankrupt you before you get within sight of open water . |
| 5 | The flowers I know at sight are bluebell , foxglove , dandelion , buttercup , campion and wild garlic . |
| 6 | ( For Moore yellow is simply the quality we immediately apprehend in sight , not its physical basis . ) |
| 7 | At first , sailors used to sail along the coast and stay within sight of land so that they did n't get lost . |
| 8 | Taylor , concerned that England have hit just six goals in the last eight games , has demanded his players shoot on sight and overwhelm the Turks . |
| 9 | Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight . |
| 10 | They live between the islands of wire and wooden walls , they exist within sight of the watch-towers and beside the garrison barracks . |
| 11 | The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago . |
| 12 | From Dundonnell a cart track leads up from the road to the plateau of An Teallach and can be followed until the twin peaks of Beinn Dearg come into sight . |
| 13 | Help in sight for Panama |
| 14 | Philip tells me they fight like cats every time they come within sight of each other , and Count Geoffrey is so occupied with annexing Normandy that he refuses to help her cause here . ’ |
| 15 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the section Reid considers the artist 's need to acquire ‘ the habit of distinguishing the appearance of objects to the eye , from the judgment which we form by sight , of their colour , distance , magnitude , and figure . ’ |
| 17 | It begins to look as if ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ and ‘ the judgement which we form by sight ’ do not constitute a dichotomy . |
| 18 | Finally , ideas sometimes have a ‘ steadiness , order , and coherence ’ and come in ‘ a regular train or series ’ : ‘ when we perceive by sight a certain round luminous figure , we at the same time perceive by touch the idea or sensation called heat . ’ |