Example sentences of "[adj] see [adj] " 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 | Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance . |
| 3 | If , as the sub who wrote the title suggests , there is another side to the truth , then we would be happy I first of all , and then those who admire Manzoni to see reliable and contemporary documents which prove it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know they are encouraged to , but it is n't pleasant to see middle-aged women clapping their hands and being excited and saying ridiculous things like : ‘ Look at that pretty pink cushion ! ’ |
| 7 | At first , there will be little to see other than an area of dirty , discoloured water , possibly hot or ‘ boiling ’ , and probably with a good many dead fish floating around in it . |
| 8 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 9 | I believe , my dear , that seeing beautiful things around does so help a soul to feel strong , would n't you say ? |
| 10 | It is more usual to see individual carp , or just one or two together . |
| 11 | Five thousand people paid a shilling each to see this show . |
| 12 | Are you going to be sorry to see that boat go ? |
| 13 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 14 | It is quite possible to see DVI and its capabilities as distinct from CD-I . |
| 15 | Is it possible to see private affluence co-existing with corporate poverty ? |
| 16 | It is possible to see faint remnants of the city/ savage confrontation in the later plays , and Carol Smith continues to track the ritual elements in these , but the feeling in them seems to me increasingly one of whimsy and , eventually , gentle pastoral . |
| 17 | If urban values lend support to the industrial economy upon which we all depend today and this is further characterised by competition , unemployment , social welfare , and a sharp distinction between work and leisure then it is possible to see rural values supporting an almost diametrically-opposed set of conditions : co-operation , multiple occupations , kin and neighbourhood help and no separation of work and leisure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 22 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 23 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 24 | Again it is possible to see that , for a Christian in particular , the responses can become muddled . |
| 25 | It is possible to see each monastery and castle , then , as the centre of operations within its area . |
| 26 | ‘ Is it possible to see native birds ? |
| 27 | By displaying numbers in a simple and visually revealing way such as , for example , the graph/table hybrid known as ‘ stem and leaf ’ , it is possible to see obvious patterns quickly and focus harder on more puzzling aspects of the data ( Erickson and Nosanchuk 1977 : 20 ) . |
| 28 | Is it possible to see some photos of her at home with her horses ? |
| 29 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 30 | 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 . |