Example sentences of "[is] [adj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 2 | That has now been achieved and , although we know that a long road awaits the negotiators , it is refreshing to see the leaders of the Palestinian people at the conference table and to watch their demeanour as they approach the massive problems . |
| 3 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 4 | There is little to see , and users must make up their own minds on whether it covers their needs , rather than relying on the opinions of others . |
| 5 | The fundamental difference is Labour sees Scotland as its territory . |
| 6 | He is due to see a chiropractor tomorrow and is likely to undergo surgery . |
| 7 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 8 | think it through is that , do we want to live in a country where it is normal to see an advert wi , under the job section saying , no smoker need apply ? |
| 9 | At a time of so much egocentric materialism it 's refreshing to see the NI fighting so effectively for imaginative humanitarianism . " |
| 10 | It 's strange to see someone crying without using their mouth . |
| 11 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 12 | On making enquiries , it seems that there are no records of an earlier gallery here , but it is pleasant to see a reminder of bygone days amongst the new shops in the restoration of this attractive yard . |
| 13 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 14 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 15 | It is strange seeing an American without a car . |
| 16 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 17 | It is strange to see , however , how a ‘ supra-personal ’ quality can be hinted at in a girl or woman , coming close to the archetypal spirit . |
| 18 | With so many shades of grey to choose from , how can you be so sure that it 's right to see so much in your life in terms of black and white ? |
| 19 | That 's right see we 've talked , we 've spoken about all the form closes before in the past , we 've spoken about a sumter closes , I mean you know what I mean by a sumter close , do n't you ? |
| 20 | Yeah that 's right see see what I mean ? |
| 21 | He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing . |
| 22 | It 's odd to see how much smaller the trees clinging to the cliff face which are exposed to the salty winds off the sea are compared to those growing in the more sheltered woodland later in the walk . |
| 23 | But at the end of the conference season , it is possible to see a political market-place reviving in Britain , albeit a market-place containing only two parties . |
| 24 | To the west it is possible to see the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland and you can sometimes see the peaks of Snowdonia to the north . |
| 25 | If blasphemy was ‘ a way of affirming belief , then it is possible to see how Eliot 's most blasphemously despairing poem , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , led up to his conversion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The laws are kept because of our faith ; it is possible to see why they have even been called ‘ the secret of our survival ’ . |
| 28 | Again it is possible to see that , for a Christian in particular , the responses can become muddled . |
| 29 | It is possible to see this most clearly when some local or national tragedy occurs . |
| 30 | In old churchyards it is possible to see the graves of people who have killed themselves placed beyond the walls of the burial grounds and sometimes left unmarked . |