Example sentences of "have been [adj] to see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America , despite ( or perhaps because of ) its smaller state sector , has been slow to see the point of it . |
| 2 | I may be a little naive , but it would have been nice to see a man mentioned as a future England manager demonstrate that he understood the importance of loyalty . |
| 3 | It would have been nice to see a mention of this in Guitarist 's review of the same product . |
| 4 | He was tough to handle , ’ said Hansen , who would have been delighted to see the Dane acting as peacemaker in the volatile Manchester derby at Old Trafford this week . |
| 5 | The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision … |
| 6 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 7 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
| 8 | Culley would n't have been surprised to see a rat-maze in the corner . |
| 9 | There were date palms in the middle ground and I should n't have been surprised to see a pyramid in the distance . |
| 10 | She would n't have been surprised to see the wall behind it char and burn . |
| 11 | In the end the fourteen-stone collier had been glad to see the back of her . |
| 12 | If I had been able to see a copy of the local Communist party paper , I would have learned that I — with many others — had been unmasked as a conspirator and an enemy of the state . |
| 13 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 14 | Only Mr. Smith said he had been able to see the man 's face . |
| 15 | When she was quite small she had been surprised to see the woman carrying a folded table and a Gladstone bag . |
| 16 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 17 | One example er , a couple of examples erm , we 've worked together with the unions in Moulinex in northern France who bought Swan Kettles er which is where the G M B is erm is highly organized and er in those er meetings between the unions in , in Moulinex and Swan we 've been able to see the disparity between the conditions and the wages and be able to speak about ways in which people can go back to their , to their er workplace and work on that with that knowledge . |
| 18 | The software houses that have been slow to see the way the wind was blowing and have hardly started recasting their applications for Unix . |