Example sentences of "[modal v] see [art] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City analysts said that the full year should see a profit of £19.5m , to give 43.5p of earnings and a 14 per cent discount to the market . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , you should see the voyage of self-discovery as a shared experience , in which you seek to increase your own competence and self-confidence by means of mutually-rewarding relationships with your fellow students , your teachers and other members of college staff . |
| 3 | A version of Gladys Knight 's ‘ Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me ’ , another ragga collaboration , this time featuring the vocal talents of Sweetie Irie , should see the light of day in the summer . |
| 4 | The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered . |
| 5 | This is the background against which we must see the departure of William Charles Titford for London . |
| 6 | The Governor must see the heat of bodies as much as the physical flesh . |
| 7 | Which I suspect the odd tory MP having a heart attack , falling under a bus , the loss of directions might actually mean that they might see a degree of sense in borough capping . |
| 8 | We 've seen that with the City technology colleges , which are nobody talks about , surprisingly enough , when we 've discovered that actually industry is n't remotely interested in them , and of course in the first year of an opted out school one might see a bit of palm crossing with silver . |
| 9 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 10 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 11 | You 'll see a lot of guff written about PC performance , almost everywhere you look . |
| 12 | ‘ Okay , I 'll see the thief of Baghdad for you . |
| 13 | It costs eighty five p , and you can get it from any of the H M S O — Her Majesty 's Stationery Office — or you could order it , I should think , from most bookshops , and that 'll give you a pretty good overview of what Warnock is trying to do , and then , of course if anybody 's interested enough in comparing that with the Act , you 'll see the kind of things that were in the Warnock Report have n't actually come through in the act . |
| 14 | If you look east , in the distance you 'll see the peaks of Aran Benllen and Aran Fawddwy . |
| 15 | Erm if you 'd like to look behind the hangar you 'll see the sort of thing we 're up against . |
| 16 | To take a quick look now at the current conditions and in fact you 'll see the extension of gas prices , rig counts etcetera into this year on the charts that you 'll be given with a pack after this meeting . |
| 17 | You may see the location of Ellen Terry 's cottage at Winchelsea , the billowing sail of Captain Locker 's ship ( see p.200–201 ) , the Tower of London ( as used on the Public Record Office plate ) , the crest of Charles Dickens , to which he was not entitled , having annexed it from a 1625 grant to William Dickens , and the forty quarterings of the arms of Sir Francis Fust . |
| 18 | This is an interesting development and if the trend continues , we may see the demise of collateral warranties in the not too distant future . |
| 19 | The bed beside her was empty , but there were men in the yard : she could see a glimmer of light between the shutters and hear a flotsam of voices now and then , when the wind died . |
| 20 | In the deck well I could see a couple of girls and two men in bathing suits . |
| 21 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 22 | She could see a flicker of fire , Wynne-Jones 's fire . |
| 23 | Walking along the riverbank or lakeside , I could see a variety of waterfowl , such as moorhens , seagulls and ducks ; up in the trees were virtually the entire crow family — jays , rooks and jackdaws — as well as blackbirds , thrushes , finches , all the everyday birds . |
| 24 | On the work surface she could see a bowl of salad , the wine bottle and a row of cutlery . |
| 25 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
| 26 | I thought I could see a gleam of light , " You mean his stomach … ? " |
| 27 | I could see a sort of Army bed . |
| 28 | Through the window I could see a group of men walking away . |
| 29 | He could see a group of men at the bottom , surrounding the Glory . |
| 30 | In the distance he could see a group of dog-walkers . |