Example sentences of "be [verb] to see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 2 | What is required is that students are helped to see beneath the surface appearance of their core discipline ; and that the concepts and perspectives of philosophy and sociology are valuable in bringing about that exposure of the discipline . |
| 3 | The receipt of the Company for the purchase money shall be a good discharge to the Purchaser who shall not be bound to see to the application thereof and , after the name of the Purchaser has been entered in the register in purported exercise of the aforesaid powers , the validity of the proceedings shall not be questioned by any person . |
| 4 | The receipt of the Company for the purchase money shall be a good discharge to the Purchaser who shall not be bound to see to the application thereof and , after the name of the Purchaser has been entered in the register in purported exercise of the aforesaid powers , the validity of the proceedings shall not be questioned by any person . |
| 5 | The receipt of the Company for the purchase money , pursuant to such transfers , shall constitute a good and valid discharge to the Proposed Purchaser ( who shall not be bound to see to the application thereof ) and after the Proposed Purchaser has been registered in purported exercise of the aforesaid powers the validity of the proceedings shall not be questioned by any person . |
| 6 | You will also be required to see to the boiling of water for tea when a tea-meeting is held and the washing up of the delf , etc , afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 8 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 9 | ‘ I left him in the house ; I said I was going to see to the goats . ’ |
| 10 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 11 | She was craning to see over the shoulders of the people in front , and pushing Wayne 's hands away as he playfully offered to lift her . |