Example sentences of "[adj] see [det] " in BNC.

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1 We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade .
2 I am a great fan of Ginny 's but I must admit I was upset to see this picture as Murphy must obviously be in pain .
3 If Brindley 's detractors thought his stone aqueduct was a mad idea , it is as well they were not alive to see this amazing piece of engineering successfully accomplished .
4 Five thousand people paid a shilling each to see this show .
5 Are you going to be sorry to see that boat go ?
6 But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long .
7 What has not been appreciated until recently , however , is that it is possible to see many of the land boundaries of the territorial divisions and ‘ estates ’ of this period on Dartmoor .
8 Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach .
9 However , it is certainly still possible to see many sets of standard terms which contain clauses which could well be either banned or subject to the reasonableness test under the Act .
10 Again it is possible to see that , for a Christian in particular , the responses can become muddled .
11 It is possible to see each monastery and castle , then , as the centre of operations within its area .
12 Is it possible to see some photos of her at home with her horses ?
13 It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance .
14 Nevertheless , we have already seen that it is possible to see some total societies as externalizations of paranoia ; not merely as collective projections ( which may also be present ) , but as realizations of paranoid processes within the architecture of the state .
15 It is possible to see this most clearly when some local or national tragedy occurs .
16 And , again , if it is functioning well , it is possible to see this reflected in the bearing and in the expressions of the players whilst they are making music .
17 Also worthy of closer inspection is the church at Stanley , its twin towers ornately fashioned in stone although it is not possible to see any detail from the canal .
18 It would be wrong to see this development as involving the replacement of the working class by the new urban left .
19 Groups of actors have often provided the focus of stories about the victimisation of innocents by totalitarian forces ( examples include To Be or Not to Be , Privates on Parade , The Last Metro and the recent Spanish film Ay , Carmela ! ) , so it 's interesting to see such a relatively early variation on the theme as this .
20 It is interesting to see that of the Brits farming in France most of us have wives teaching English as a way of earning extra income .
21 This is very quickly which I did n't have before , my way of doing the trading account and Ian was going to sympathize because he said there 's no need to put exactly but for us it 's quite interesting to see that .
22 Technically , it is always interesting to see these museum exhibits as natural gold varies slightly in shape and colour from location to location .
23 It will be equally interesting to see more work done extending his methods to the texts used in schools .
24 The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection .
25 After that , it was easier to see that Strabo himself largely depended on posidonius and that Caesar , too , must have used Posidoriius in the ethnographic excursuses of the Bellurn Gallicurn .
26 erm And the reason I 've given you that one is that that was drawn in 1675 by David Loggen , and it 's a very , very accurate one , and it 's rather easier to see some of the places I shall be talking about , so I think it 's a nice one for you to have close up .
27 An avowed enemy could of course be opposed with propriety , but if sufficient effort was not made to put victory beyond dispute , there was always some danger of humiliation , and , since there were inevitably many gentlemen who loved a winner , there would be some to see such a defeat as a sign to reconsider their political friendships .
28 While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year .
29 If we do not oppose him by force then we must be willing to see all that we love and value go under for at least a generation .
30 The ex-CID officer was more reticent about the perks of the job , more willing to see those offers as the practice in other forces .
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