Example sentences of "see [conj] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stimuli of this sort may still evoke an OR that habituates during pre-exposure but there is no reason to suppose that the loss of the overt components of this response will prevent the subjects from seeing or hearing the stimulus . |
| 2 | Coach tour of the city seeing or visiting the Servian walls , Aurelian walls , gates of the city and Praetorian camp , pyramid of Cestius , temples of the Forum Boarium , theatre of Marcellus , mausoleum of Augustus , Pantheon and Baths of Diocletian . |
| 3 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 4 | Folly remembered the young girl she had seen when delivering the flowers , and her obvious hero-worship of her boss . |
| 5 | The short-sighted , narrow-minded Education Reform Act should not be seen as ringing the death-knell of teacher reflection and autonomy , but rather as signalling its increasing urgency . |
| 6 | ‘ In the light of the apology to the Queen in today 's issue of the Sun and the offer of the newspaper to pay £200,000 to charity , Her Majesty is content to regard the matter as settled since the making of the payment by the newspaper must be seen as recognising the basis of the claim , ’ the statement said . |
| 7 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership . |
| 8 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership and providing an Industry-based resource for the curriculum . |
| 9 | ( Skokov had worked in the defence industry ; Filatov was seen as reflecting the views of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Ruslan Khasbulatov , who was increasingly antagonistic to the government 's reforms ; and Rutskoi , also critical of the government , had influence among the army and led the newly formed and already influential Civic Union — see p. 38974 . ) |
| 10 | The frequent use of metaphor by authors describing the use of citation counts as a basis for value judgements is seen as reflecting the resistance of the citation process to standardisation . |
| 11 | Similarly , the use of the demonstrative of proximity " this ' can be seen as reflecting the speaker 's perception at the time of the narrated event , in which case the spatial deictic centre is temporarily shifted from the location of the I as speaker to that of the I as character in the story . |
| 12 | This distinction can be seen as allowing the salesmen to defend themselves through providing a justification for fiddling . |
| 13 | Much morality , and thereby much metaphysics , has been distorted by serving a polemical purpose in a clash of ideals seen as dividing the two sexes . |
| 14 | To test the prediction that the unpredictable component of monetary growth affects real variables , Barro first regresses the level of unemployment on the current and lagged values of his variable and on two other variables which are seen as influencing the natural rate of unemployment . |
| 15 | The diagnostic expert system was seen as using the SEMA faults data-base as a source for its knowledge base . |
| 16 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 17 | Jesus is seen as fulfilling the Old Testament in the sense that he is greater than the Jewish Law . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the hospital beds and places to be opened in London were seen as facilitating the further development of comprehensive community services . |
| 19 | This life force , which integrates the physical , emotional and mental aspects of the individual , and which is equated here with some part of the spiritual plane , is seen as underlying the whole complex , interlinking and interrelated fabric which is life on this planet . |
| 20 | This continuous flow of information may be seen as maintaining the equilibrium in a situation which entails considerable risks , particularly for the teacher . |
| 21 | This clutch of appointments , together with her post-Falklands dominance in the Cabinet , was widely seen as heralding the introduction of a Prime Minister 's Department . |
| 22 | In contrast , east Thurso ( with no cases ) may be seen as resembling the urban areas in our study in which the incidence of leukaemia was unaffected by the oil industry . |
| 23 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 24 | The ‘ Hitler myth ’ can be seen as providing the central motor for integration , mobilization , and legitimation within the Nazi system of rule . |
| 25 | The Report has been seen as providing the most authoritative collective manifesto for English ever issued . |
| 26 | Against either form of determinism one might instead want to argue that contingencies and institutions should be seen as providing the arena in which power-players will seek to utilize whatever resources are available in constructing local organizational practice , shaped to whatever mode of rationality , against the last of organizational imperatives . |
| 27 | However , the overall distribution of ratings , the majority being very low numbers with the occasional higher one , might equally be seen as supporting the idea that subjects are generally feeling no risk at all but occasionally give a high number with the activation of the ‘ subjective risk monitor ’ ( Summala , 1976 ) . |
| 28 | In Cook the British Columbia Court of Appeal also held that the former sexual offences should not be seen as setting the boundaries of the new sexual offences . |
| 29 | This must not be seen as condoning the random killing of animals ; far from it . |
| 30 | It may be seen as expressing the personality of the author , in accordance with the famous formula of the French scholar Buffon ( 1978 : xvii ) , that the style is the man ( ‘ le style est l'homme même ’ ) ; or it may be related to a literary movement or period ( e.g. futurist style , baroque style ) . |