Example sentences of "be [verb] to see [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained . |
| 2 | The security source added : ‘ Customs are checking to see if these men are in fact registered for VAT . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , we 're trying to see if any pick up the nails in the wall , you know |
| 4 | ‘ I think we are going to see that slight pick-up disappear . |
| 5 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 6 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to see that this sort of thing never happens again , ’ I said . |
| 8 | I 'm going to see if this thing is still erm Yep , we 've still got some on that side , so that 's okay . |
| 9 | These findings were used to see whether appropriate timing of octreotide injections with respect to meal ingestion might avert impaired gall bladder contraction . |
| 10 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 11 | A police investigation is being held to see if any charges should be brought . |
| 12 | In the tear-down bay the engine is carefully dismantled and an initial ‘ eyeball ’ inspection is made to see if any snags become apparent . |
| 13 | A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally . |
| 14 | Ann was helped to see that this problem originally resulted from displaced resentments about Charles 's infidelity . |
| 15 | Great care was taken to see that this work was disseminated as widely as possible . |
| 16 | Having seen photographs of ancient Cretan coins portraying a labyrinth or maze , I was longing to see whether any trace of it survives at Knossos , a three-and-a-half-hour bus ride east along the coast road , just past Heraklion . |