Example sentences of "[conj] see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 2 | For example , an isolated regular polygon , such as a geometric square , meticulously ruled and cut from plane board , is not necessarily felt and seen as a true square . |
| 3 | He hoped , an instant before the impact , that the gambit of the fire was not going to spoil the gambit of the Normans , and saw from a distant glitter far on his right that it was not . |
| 4 | national account manager who 's specifically looks after and then go and see on a regular basis but call on them but invariably the accounts that those account managers deal with at erm will be split all round the country and will be controlled by our local sales executives in those areas |
| 5 | The cucullati were strange twilight creatures flitting about in the under-growth and the skirtings of a house , but seen as a potent element of the life-force with their phallic hoods and the garments usually worn by small children . |
| 6 | The ambiguities in their identity were not resolved , but seen in a different perspective . |
| 7 | The CLAWS system also adopts ‘ backing off ’ formulae but seen from a different perspective — a bigram model is used except for special-case tag-triples which empirical results showed would be wrongly tagged . |
| 8 | The whole city centre and industrial areas , when seen as a vast cityscape from the air in the film 's opening shots , was ‘ Ridley 's Inferno ’ , and actually consisted of three tabletop models , each 6 x 13 feet ( 1.8 x 4m ) , placed side by side to give an area 18 feet ( 5.5m ) wide and 13 feet ( 4m ) deep . |
| 9 | Close beside it is a much fainter star , Alcor , which is an easy object when seen against a dark sky , and can be made out with no trouble at all . |
| 10 | However , when seen within a meaningful context , the correct interpretation seems almost obvious . |
| 11 | Its object is concerned with inflation , with preventing or restraining a general fall in the value of money , as seen in a general rise in prices — however difficult it may be to attach a precise concept to a ‘ general rise ’ in prices . |
| 12 | In the latter case one is confronted by something like a functioning assembly which needs to be dismantled and analysed before it can be understood , whereas in the former case one has something much more like an ‘ exploded ’ view of things as seen in a working drawing . |
| 13 | Mr Davis expects his Davis Entertainment Television company to have his first Soviet-based project , a made-for-television film about the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from a Russian perspective , ready by January . |
| 14 | Now consider the shares as seen by a potential bidder for the whole trust ; most likely this would itself be a financial institution . |