Example sentences of "[noun] see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 2 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 3 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |
| 4 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 5 | These demons are contrasted with another caricature , that of ‘ right thinking people , ’ whom Lord Taylor sees as a truer measure of what is just . |
| 6 | But there must be the desire to see in a new way or the vision will never come . |
| 7 | Winters went down 8–6 to Nahgettin Issever of Turkey in what the majority of impartial observers saw as a clear ‘ hometown ’ decision . |
| 8 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 9 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 10 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 11 | People seen in a different context are treated in a different way . |
| 12 | Printing was from the start seen as a promising trade for pilot schemes . |
| 13 | Her father saw in a vulgar simulacrum of coloured lights and trilling music a true portrayal of a great maritime tragedy ; whereas for her the reality was best conveyed by a simple , static canvas adorned with pigment . |
| 14 | He gave Miss Jarman a sideways look which Jess saw with a little skip of interest , thinking — he 's got her measure ; she wo n't fool him . |
| 15 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 16 | At Sara 's and David 's entrance , the girl stepped back convulsively from the man , and Sara saw with a dull feeling of inevitability that it was Matthew and Sandra . |
| 17 | Suppose some little physical fact has struck you ; for instance , a green dress seen under a red light can look black . |
| 18 | Quality will use the new money it raises in the share issue to develop what Parker sees as a massive market for its Universal On Line Accounting System , a modular , portable , single source , open systems version of its traditional OLAS product , designed to run a variety of servers , relational databases and graphical user interfaces . |
| 19 | This compares what the missile sees through a light-sensitive sensor in its nose with pictures of the target stored in its memory . |
| 20 | The result , the 1948 Treaty of Brussels , was a 50 year pact ‘ for collaboration in economic , social and cultural matters , and for collective self-defence ’ , which Britain saw as a practical basis for cooperation , but not union . |
| 21 | Bergs towering over us , thrashing through the pack , and that ghost ship seen by a frightened glaciologist … |
| 22 | A final steep rise in the lane is littered by stones fallen from the walls ; these end suddenly to reveal a fine view of Ingleborough directly ahead , its massive dome seen across a wide depression occupied by the lonely dwelling of Crina Bottom in a walled enclosure among sheltering trees . |
| 23 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 24 | He even played what some call the ‘ race card ’ , and others see as a proper concern for social cohesion . |
| 25 | What is in the early novels seen as a lower-order truth or a fallen state is saved , or at least salvaged , as the very possibility of any higher order truth becomes increasingly remote . |
| 26 | In September 1982 , I published an original article which suggested the use of a subsidiary power amplifier to make the load seen by a low power main voltage amplifier seem very much greater than it was in reality . |
| 27 | More spectacular has been the recent observation of twin images of the same quasar source seen through a gravitational lens made up of galactic material nearer to the Earth . |
| 28 | It must be borne in mind that a longer exposure will allow more plant material to be ‘ seen ’ but correction must be made for spreading of material seen at a lower exposure . |
| 29 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 30 | All this Charlotte saw in a single glance . |