Example sentences of "we see [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where , though , do we see evidence today of any analogous common grounding , and of a felt shared set of interests running across the academic community and its various disciplines ?
2 Can we see gender being socially constructed along with the technology ?
3 Can we see convenience , enjoyment , etcetera , as cases of texture ?
4 Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ?
5 She says the setting is lovely , but when we saw hime at the Albert Hall he was superb — he 's not as good this evening .
6 We saw evidence of what would later promise to be a riot of butterflies with entire bushes covered by baby caterpillars and chrysalises .
7 " We saw evidence … of deteriorating environmental quality , permanent damage to the landscape and poor local relationships " , the report warns .
8 The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change .
9 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
10 We saw killer whales near the coast of Iceland , numerous seals and birds resting on ice floes , and heard constant stories of 30-foot Greenland sharks and aggressive Porbeagle sharks .
11 We saw French , Americans , Spaniards , Italians , Catalans , Dutch and some serious looking Swedes whose leader had a walkie-talkie .
12 It was the most southerly westernized town , the last in which we saw television aerials .
13 We saw socialism as yet another squabbling position in male politics .
14 Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously .
15 It was the only day of the week on which we saw Grandad in a suit with a tie , and in his Sunday boots .
16 All on the same alder tree we saw coal tits , gold crests , marsh willow tits and long-tailed tits and I learnt to distinguish the whip-like whistling note of the marsh tit .
17 However , in nineteen eighty four the market began to improve until , in nineteen ninety one , we saw record orders placed and , although that 's levelled out , orders still outstrip production .
18 In Video Plan 6 we saw roleplay introduced after silent viewing and before students listened to the dialogue .
19 He says ’ We saw violence and physical and verbal abuse against officers and the organisers themsleves showed great restraint in the way they delt with the problem which was not really of their making .
20 We saw language development as a social process , not as a series of individual skills to be mastered in turn .
21 ‘ The way we see marriage has changed .
22 By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself .
23 We see horror now .
24 Naturalism as an aesthetic may work as a tool of catharsis — we may suffer with those we see suffering — but it does not illuminate methods for action after the catharsis .
25 When we see Grandcourt at breakfast there with Mr Lush , the scene is suggestively rendered as a ‘ still-life ’ , artfully composed but with no vital principle , the room ‘ seeming the stiller for its sober antiquated elegance , as if it kept a conscious , well-bred silence ’ .
26 Here , as in other areas , we see ecology emerging from a deliberate revolt against the evolutionary morphology of earlier decades .
27 Now we see management very much as business management , rather than functional management . ’
28 It certainly makes a great difference to our lives when we see prayer as delighting in God .
29 The party struggle , whether in- or out-of-doors , was never solely about the conflict between the Church and Dissent ; nevertheless , this conflict was a powerful and central feature of that struggle , which we see present throughout most of the period .
30 We see history produced in history departments , philosophy in philosophy departments , sociology in sociology departments , and so on , by academics for whom teaching and research are two aspects of a unified activity .
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