Example sentences of "[adj] to see what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be entertaining to see what the fellow would try to do next . |
| 2 | ‘ Roger looks as if he 's running well , so it will be interesting to see what the selectors will do . ’ |
| 3 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 4 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
| 5 | It is instructive to see what the reviewer in The Planner thought of it |
| 6 | It was too dark to see what the thing was . |
| 7 | But it is easy to see what the sceptic will say at this point , quite apart from the implied oddity that there is a claim which I could not be justified in making but which another can be justified in making for me . |
| 8 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 9 | It 's hard to see what the aim is . |
| 10 | Naturally , when the seedlings are planted out , you will be all agog to see what the blooms will be like . |
| 11 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 12 | Seeing that point of view does not mean agreeing with it or even empathising with it : it simply means being able to see what the view is — to look at things from that viewpoint . |
| 13 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 14 | In the case of the elephant and rhino it is difficult to see what the Fund could have done , other than supply anti-poaching equipment and finance for wardens . |
| 15 | It may turn out that the differences are an artefact of the methods used in different laboratories , but it is difficult to see what the relevant differences may be . |
| 16 | It was increasingly difficult to see what the party line was : the Chief Whip , Lord Edmund Talbot , had summoned Robert Sanders back from war service and after his return in May 1917 he was pressed into the party 's service . |
| 17 | Indeed at times it has seemed difficult to see what the newcomers could do to alleviate the resentments they have occasionally caused . |
| 18 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 19 | The Private Secretary — Michael Marsden , he remembered with an effort — signalled them from the door and McLeish moved forward , keen to see what the kingpin of this row of skittles looked like . |