Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Garry may see things differently . ’ |
| 2 | Pray that the missionaries may see revival . |
| 3 | The future should see Allen re-established as a counter-cultural household name again . |
| 4 | Social workers responsible for eight-year-olds should see non-reading at this age as a danger sign and a precursor of learning and behaviour problems . |
| 5 | Ari could see Elice confused the boy ; she had the subtlety of a hammer . |
| 6 | Over her shoulder , Britta could see coils of smoke . |
| 7 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 8 | Bernice could see Thomas trying to prise his hands apart , but his broken arm proved to be a burden . |
| 9 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |
| 10 | Ken would see Andrew to his bus to Victoria where he 'd catch his train to Brighton . |
| 11 | But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued . |
| 12 | Manager Billy Bingham hopes those fans will see Northern Ireland record their third Group Three win in a row . |
| 13 | The lower cell will see movement down and to the right . |
| 14 | The upper cell will see movement down and to the right and the lower cell will see movement up and to the right . |
| 15 | The upper cell will see movement down and to the right and the lower cell will see movement up and to the right . |
| 16 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder : so the poet will see beauty where another will see only ugliness . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Apple Computer Inc says it will fit out its Quadra 700/900 AUX 3.0 servers with DigiBoard multi-port boards , whilst a new worldwide OEM deal will see IBM supply DigiBoard 128-port asynchronous cluster controllers for its RS/6000 series . |
| 18 | Clients can see samples of all the materials and many of Anthony 's exclusive products at his small garden centre . |
| 19 | As well as seeing how whisky is made , visitors to the Glenfiddich Distillery can see coopers making oak casks . |
| 20 | Parents may see danger when their children are too inexperienced to recognize it . |
| 21 | Thus only a parent may see information on the record concerning the pupil 's racial group , language or religion , and only a parent may see a statement of special educational needs ( under the Education Act 1981 — see Chapter 4 ) or results of the pupil 's assessment . |
| 22 | Lord Cledwyn , the Opposition leader in the Lords , warned that destabilisation of Warsaw Pact countries might see history repeating itself in the balkanisation of Eastern Europe and in ethnic and territorial disputes . |
| 23 | Across the gloomy interior , Tallis could see Scathach crouched by the straw mattress , his arm around the back of the old man 's head . |
| 24 | Indeed , to suppose that any Carolingian ruler would readily see the clergy as a challenge , as Henry II of England could see Thomas Becket in the 1160s , would be radically to misconstrue his mentality . |
| 25 | He took off his dark glasses , and Duroc could see points of blood in the Elder 's ancient eyes . |
| 26 | Further along , Simon could see Mr Bishop 's kiosk , abandoned to the elements , its shutters still down , its back door flapping open , banging to and fro in the wind . |
| 27 | This was not obvious to most people in the later nineteenth century , and the general effect of the Second Law was to encourage the gloomy belief that in time the universe would die the heat death of general tepidity : that the universe would see Victorians and their foreseeable descendants out , its death being many million years away , was little consolation to believers in progress , who saw it all stopping in the distant future . |
| 28 | I suspected the trip had to do with the company shutting down this section of the stageline ; Mr. Mendez would see Delgado about closing his station and take an inventory of company property . |
| 29 | United supporters in Stand B will see prices fall from £15 to £14 , with season ticket holders in the Kop and Lowfields seeing prices rise from £135 to £140 an increase of 3.7pc . |
| 30 | Another persistent rumour is that the National Railway Museum V2 No. 4771 Green Arrow will see service on the railway before becoming a static exhibit at York . |