Example sentences of "see [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's these developments that the borough council wishes to see embraced by a new policy . |
| 2 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 3 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 4 | On close examination , tiny points of light can be seen bouncing in a random zig-zag motion . |
| 5 | Deixis is seen as a fundamental element of human discourse , and a particular discoursal site is isolated where it can be seen operating in a particular way . |
| 6 | Each of these premises can be seen acting to a greater or lesser degree in the siting of any particular settlement . |
| 7 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 8 | First , a strong close-knit network may be seen to function as a conservative force , resisting pressures to change from outside the network . |
| 9 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 10 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 11 | The Balinese talk of the great dalangs who , when " possessed by light " beyond the shadow screen , are occasionally seen to glow with a flickering nimbus , as they speak in voices not their own . |
| 12 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |
| 13 | And never be too proud to be seen riding in a little buggy like this , instead of a limousine . |
| 14 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 15 | The black , low-reflectance , areas are water , and the Colorado River is seen running in a south-westerly direction from Hite Crossing in the north to Glen Canyon in the south-west . |
| 16 | Usually seen soaring at a considerable height . |
| 17 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 18 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
| 19 | This second bacterial pattern was only seen associated with a degenerated epithelium presenting with few apical mucoid granules , fewer microvilli , cytoplasmic vacuolisations , and absence of mucus layer , and it was found in all the ultrastructural sections in which the second or third pattern of contact with gastric epithelium was present ( sections from biopsy specimens of 31 patients ) . |
| 20 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 21 | This is a political idea and it is one which we have seen expressed in a contemporary form in Oakeshott 's idea of respublica . |
| 22 | In a broader sense , de Gaulle 's attitudes towards Germany and towards the empire ( which he wanted to see reconstituted in a reformed imperial federation ) were fundamentally at odds with the dynamics of the postwar world . |
| 23 | He sees teaching as a rational activity amenable to improvement on the basis of research and development . |
| 24 | The sort of sites you 'd expect to see allocated in a local plan . |
| 25 | Yes see reduced to a hundred and nineteen , took twenty quid off . |