Example sentences of "[conj] see how " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to disagree , or to see how she can overcome the problem . |
| 2 | Spectacles are not allowed , so if you ca n't see well enough without them but want to compete anyway you should either get a pair of soft contact lenses or see how you manage without glasses . |
| 3 | If he is asked to count the buttons on his shirt or see how many colours are in the pattern of his sweater , then a look in the mirror might help with this too . |
| 4 | Words ending in tion like station a railway station or see how many you can but punctuation . |
| 5 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 6 | Much as he loved Judd , he was unable to understand the boy 's passion for mechanical objects like aeroplanes in preference to living creatures like horses ; nor see how Judd could possibly justify equating the two as he did . |
| 7 | And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead … |
| 8 | Not only are we not helped by scholastic logic to acquire knowledge of the forms , natures , or essences of things , and to see how other properties flow from them , but also it is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway . |
| 9 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 10 | In part three ( chapters twelve to fifteen ) our objective is to examine what is involved in helping a person in doubt , and to see how this can be made practical and specific without being mechanical and stereotyped . |
| 11 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 12 | Their background makes it easy for them to appreciate and exploit the latest advances in active documents , and to see how document standards and document handling fit into the wider computing scene . |
| 13 | ‘ It was great to work with supreme professionals and to see how a big club like Spurs was run . |
| 14 | What really matters is an attempt to limit a hypothesis , derived from a theory , and to see how far it can withstand rigorous testing . |
| 15 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 16 | However when we attempt to unpack what is involved in measurement and to see how its discontinuity is consistent with the Schrödinger equation , then the puzzles and disputes to which quantum mechanics is heir become apparent . |
| 17 | Another way of looking at a site is to concentrate on its plan , and to see how this changes with time . |
| 18 | Stone axes have been used in several experiments to find out the method and efficiency of hafting , and to see how efficient they were in felling trees . |
| 19 | I do not know any more cheering mark of the increased philanthropy of our own times , than to contrast our domestic architecture with that of our ancestors , and to see how much better servants and poor are cared for at present . |
| 20 | ‘ To that end , ’ Nicholson continued , ‘ a Home Office delegation will be visiting this prison tomorrow to see how it runs and to see how well you 're all cared for . ’ |
| 21 | All the family found their grief for Julia hard to bear and to see how their father suffered grieved them still more . |
| 22 | It is now their individual responsibility to decide the constitutional powers of these assemblies and to see how democratic parliaments may be established in the presidential systems they have adopted . |
| 23 | They have been used to ‘ track ’ party policies over the postwar period and to see how far party 's electoral promises have been fulfilled in government . |
| 24 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |
| 25 | The most imperative need of all when it comes to Lord 's where leg spinners often make their presence felt , is for England to have at least two left handers and to see how Warne gets on against them . |
| 26 | This course is trying to put science and engineering together , and at the same time tackle a broad field of energy which spreads through industry into the home , into transport , and to see how everything goes together — science , engineering , economics , social and human questions — they all come in . |
| 27 | The major professional influence in his career , he later claimed , was meeting the publicity agents for Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show and seeing how the Americans managed the media . |
| 28 | ‘ We learn by just popping things in and seeing how they do . ’ |
| 29 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 30 | Quite simply this means working out what is needed and seeing how you can supply it . |