Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] sees [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 2 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
| 3 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 5 | Though the 1988–1991 welfare reforms , particularly those in Education and the NHS , have tended to remove some of that discretion , nevertheless central government pays somewhat selective attention to the issues which it sees as the most politically pressing . |
| 6 | In highlighting what she sees as the essence of the characters , Ms Meckler often misses their comic contradictions and ambiguities . |
| 7 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 8 | Whilst she frequently attacks Marxism and Communism , it is not simple political opposition , but rather an attack on what she sees as the effects of the spread of Marxism for Christianity , for ‘ it is of no mean significance that the secular/humanist/Marxist philosophy makes the destruction of Christianity one of its main priorities . |
| 9 | She is impatient with politics , and with what she sees as the marginalism of the Greens . |
| 10 | She is quite bitter about what has happened , resentful at what she sees as the inconsistent attitudes towards pregnancy and teenage motherhood held by members of her family and other West Indian people and still upset at her father 's extreme change in attitude towards her when he found out she was not his daughter . |
| 11 | Because different lenses are used for different purposes ( for example , a wide-angle lens gets more visual information on-screen than a close-up lens ) , even in straightforward recording , it could be argued that any photographic image is already a distortion of what one sees in the real world . |
| 12 | Tom Kalinske , president of Sega US , adds : ‘ All we are really doing is interpreting what one sees in the world today and making some form of game play out of it . |
| 13 | Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew . |
| 14 | Yet only recently has he been affirming what he sees as the Bank 's main job : to attack outright poverty — measured , for instance , in crude terms of calorific intake . |
| 15 | As the Wallabies , fresh from beating Scotland , strike a deal with sports marketing agency IMG , skipper Nick Farr-Jones speaks of his desire to speed up what he sees as the game 's inevitable move to semi-pro status . |
| 16 | ‘ Wils ’ deplores what he sees as the over-commercialisation of Lord 's , and feels resentment at the criticism that allegedly came his way whenever he helped foreign players . |
| 17 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 18 | In reflecting on his own practices as an antiracist teacher , Philip Cohen too argues for more nuanced and localized initiatives to replace what he sees as the overly prescriptive and universalistic policies of the past . |
| 19 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |
| 20 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 21 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 22 | But his frustration with what he sees as the corruption and inertia of the Romanian system means he is always ready to push an argument . |
| 23 | Harry McLevy , Scottish organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , is in no doubt Timex is determined to strangle what he sees as the union 's legitimate activities . |
| 24 | it is a clear statement of what he sees as the group 's essential mission — to construct and operate a customer-driven enterprise . |
| 25 | The mission of Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kendall Square Research Corp is to bring what it sees as the benefits of highly parallel computing to the commercial market , and the company is on its way with the signing of its first two customers , airline operator AMR Corp and direct marketing services company Neodata Inc . |
| 26 | The mission of Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kendall Square Research Corp is to bring what it sees as the benefits of highly parallel computing to the commercial market , and the company is on its way with the signing of its first two customers , airline operator AMR Corp and direct marketing services company Neodata Inc . |
| 27 | Central to the manifesto is the party 's commitments to increase education provision and halt what it sees as the erosion of social services in the county . |
| 28 | The government still believes the enabling authority is the model of the future — a move away from what it sees as the tired , sterile and unresponsive provider-centred , municipal socialism of the past . |
| 29 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 30 | What faith says in a situation is an expression of what it sees behind the situation . |