Example sentences of "they see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |
| 2 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 3 | It shows what they saw as the moral careers of ‘ successful ’ and ‘ unsuccessful ’ immigrant and the spatial progress from back region to front regions which is bound up with these careers . |
| 4 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 5 | The intellectuals of the Enlightenment showed , in general , remarkably little interest in the structure of government provided it was pursuing what they saw as the correct policies , those directed towards greater tolerance and efficiency and the happiness and welfare of mankind as a whole . |
| 6 | Puritan polemicists frequently scoffed at what they saw as the uninformed nature of this mainstream spirituality . |
| 7 | However , they felt frustrated by teaching in a comprehensive school rather than a selective school and by what they saw as the poor quality of the pupils . |
| 8 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 9 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |
| 10 | These , rather than private insurance or public ‘ welfare ’ , they saw as the real key to diminishing poverty . |
| 11 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 12 | Both Christabel Pankhurst and Swiney used medical authorities and statistics instrumentally to win specific arguments , while distancing themselves from what they saw as the corrupt power of male professionals . |
| 13 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 14 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 15 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 16 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 17 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 18 | God of all love , give vision to those dazzled by the bright lights of Christmas so that they see into the dark cribs beyond the packed inns and be the shepherd or the person of wisdom to those who have nothing to celebrate . |
| 19 | Nineteen members of the Centre Scientifique des Recherches Archáeologiques , the thirty-nine member body which advises on archaeological research in France , have resigned in protest at what they see as the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 20 | They point to what they see as the devastating effect of the Exchange Rate Mechanism on keeping interest rates high and maintaining a debt-driven recession . |
| 21 | In an essay on the early-music revival in Europe and America , Howard Mayer Brown noted that ‘ many English musicians … even today react strongly against what they see as the serious limitations of the English church music tradition … |
| 22 | What becomes clear is that a parent must listen to the individual school 's advice on what they see as the best sort of homework to give and in what amounts . |
| 23 | For others , what they see as the opposite approach to worship , that of questioning , ( 12 ) should be the fundamental criterion for judging effective RE . |
| 24 | They home in on what they see as the uncontrolled nature of CID work , and sneer and begrudge the detective his apparent freedom of movement . |
| 25 | No longer through Bibles , sacred texts and holy writ is the world conquered , but by the promise that if the poorest countries will carry out the prescriptions — indeed , the orders — of the western financial institutions , they too will achieve the levels of affluence and ease that they see in the western world . |