Example sentences of "[was/were] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I know what quality you were seeing when you engaged the last one , ’ Anna teased affectionately . |
| 2 | Rafelson , Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner had smart quarters and were seeing very substantial returns on Easy Rider and other films , and BBS was growing with it . |
| 3 | We were seeing how it was becoming more dangerous , violent , with the growing presence of guns amongst kids . |
| 4 | they were seeing how much more they could eat and take home . |
| 5 | Both have busy working lives and they realised they were seeing less and less of each other and spending their one day together , Sunday , in a daze . |
| 6 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 7 | And , as we were seeing heart-breakingly today , nature itself is enough of a challenge to birds . |
| 8 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 9 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 10 | But the terms of reference given to the committee were to see how A levels could be improved , in order that they should remain as ‘ standards of excellence ’ . |
| 11 | Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries . |
| 12 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 13 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 14 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 15 | Their collapse from top to near bottom has given grim satisfaction their army of ill-wishers in the rest of Welsh rugby , but really the seeds of the Welsh All Blacks ' failure were seen when they were becoming champions . |
| 16 | The consequences of this dependence were seen when the flow was cut off so abruptly after 1982 . |
| 17 | However , in the presence of NCp7 and RT , much higher levels of cDNA were produced ( lanes 7–12 ) and 3–5 additional bands were seen when the products were exposed to UV . |
| 18 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 19 | It 's important again that we were seen around in the business community . |
| 20 | Neither Joseph , nor his wife , Maria , were seen again that day . |
| 21 | No kit or ground crew were seen again by the majority of the pilots . |
| 22 | Darius checked with some friends and learned that the heavies were seen again Sunday evening . |
| 23 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 24 | Intermittent periods of activity were seen thereafter but the timing , amplitude , and duration of this activity was unpredictable . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's continues its cost-cutting format of having multiple lot colour illustrations far distanced from the cataloguing , much to the irritation of buyers who were seen constantly frantically flipping back and forth . |
| 26 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 27 | Between 1950 and 1976 from one to about 30 birds were seen annually , except in 1960 when there were about 160 , mainly in the spring . |
| 28 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 29 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 30 | They were seen off after walking round the house to the front . |