seeing that

Idioms  

1. Also, seeing as or seeing as how. In view of, inasmuch as. For example, Seeing that you're coming anyhow, I decided not to take notes for you, or Seeing as they liked her first book, they were sure to make a good offer for the second one. The first expression was used by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (2:2): “Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.“ The variants are colloquialisms and are recorded from the second half of the 1900s, although they probably have been in much longer use orally.

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Example Sentences

He visited family there when he was 14 and “felt a great deal of pride” in seeing that “Western depictions of the country are far afield from reality, that it’s a very warm and loving country where the people are very hospitable and it’s very clear that they’ve lived under oppressive rule.”

From Los Angeles Times

Of people drinking less, Troy said, “We’re not seeing that, maybe because our audience is kind of self-selecting.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"The government is not doing enough for our own people... of all things I believe in is that every child that goes to school the government should be seeing that every child should get at least one free meal a day and it shouldn't matter if there parents are working," he said.

From BBC

"That feeling of seeing that torch in the distance was indescribable," he said.

From BBC

There has been a debate on the Monetary Policy Committee about what a normal level of interest would be, with some members seeing that as low as 3%.

From BBC

Related Words

• because
• since