Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 2 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 3 | A woman would quite likely have ten or twelve children , several miscarriages and still-births only to see about half her children die from common childhood ailments . |
| 4 | Study each sort separately to see how they differ in their habits . |
| 5 | We will be monitoring the pilots carefully to see how they are delivered so we can identify and repeat successes elsewhere . |
| 6 | It is early days yet to see how the ideas of Total Quality Management will affect the way in which schools operate but I have no doubt they are concepts which are of great usefulness to education . |
| 7 | If you spend more than 10 per cent of your time travelling examine your priorities carefully to see how to reduce this time loss |
| 8 | I turn my head sideways to see how I look with my ears showing , but I ca n't see proper . |
| 9 | He had beaten the New Zealander Jack Lovelock in the AAA mile — one of five consecutive championship victories — but Lovelock , the more experienced runner , was using the race chiefly to see how and when this little man used that devastating sprint . |
| 10 | The RapidCad is designed as a user upgrade so to see how easy it was to fit and how well it worked Intel made a RapidCad set available to install and use on my trusty Dabs 386. machine . |
| 11 | GRANDPARENTS welcomed a rare opportunity in Wirral yesterday to see how school life had changed since their own childhood . |
| 12 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 13 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 14 | He watches the man closely to see how he reacts when he has to talk about this appalling figure . |
| 15 | The Environment as a whole embraces parallel application programming interfaces that implement message-passing facilities common in distributed memory machines ; the PDX Parallel debugger and a performance visualisation and monitoring tool that enables users actually to see how their application is running , and spot bottlenecks . |
| 16 | If you get stuck , uncover one line just to see how they 're starting . |
| 17 | Having herself lost her mother when she was three years old , the same age as Alex now , Victoria had watched the children carefully to see how they reacted to their loss . |
| 18 | When she went next door she would go into the bathroom just to see where he kept his flannel and what kind of toothpaste he used . |
| 19 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 20 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 21 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ To that end , ’ Nicholson continued , ‘ a Home Office delegation will be visiting this prison tomorrow to see how it runs and to see how well you 're all cared for . ’ |