Example sentences of "[be] to see a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
| 2 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 3 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 4 | Thirteenth-century inquests were to see a substantial increase in this percentage . |
| 5 | The last three decades of the nineteenth century in Britain were to see a similar move on the part of the working class , desirous of experiencing the benefit of sea air and sea water , the chance of amusement and relaxation from their work , or just a change of scene from the grim tenements and back-to-back houses in which they lived , and the mills and factories in which they toiled . |
| 6 | Within media studies , on the other hand , the temptation is to see a pre-given social identity of race , class , gender limiting the possibilities of infinite variety , so that readings are not so much ‘ produced ’ in particular settings as assumed to be the product of a fixed exchange between the reader 's social position and the text . |
| 7 | My aim is to see a strong and united country in which people work together with common aims . |
| 8 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
| 9 | This story is continued in Chapter 13 , where 1991 was to see a close UN interest being taken in Iraq 's latter activities in this field . |
| 10 | The election of the Thatcher government in 1979 was to see a new approach to the management of the civil service . |
| 11 | The second half was to see a different story , after City 's comfortable half time lead . |