Example sentences of "[adj] to see [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a great fan of Ginny 's but I must admit I was upset to see this picture as Murphy must obviously be in pain . |
| 2 | Are you going to be sorry to see that boat go ? |
| 3 | However , it is certainly still possible to see many sets of standard terms which contain clauses which could well be either banned or subject to the reasonableness test under the Act . |
| 4 | It is possible to see each monastery and castle , then , as the centre of operations within its area . |
| 5 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 6 | Is it possible to see some photos of her at home with her horses ? |
| 7 | Also worthy of closer inspection is the church at Stanley , its twin towers ornately fashioned in stone although it is not possible to see any detail from the canal . |
| 8 | It would be wrong to see this development as involving the replacement of the working class by the new urban left . |
| 9 | Technically , it is always interesting to see these museum exhibits as natural gold varies slightly in shape and colour from location to location . |
| 10 | It will be equally interesting to see more work done extending his methods to the texts used in schools . |
| 11 | The ex-CID officer was more reticent about the perks of the job , more willing to see those offers as the practice in other forces . |
| 12 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 13 | I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , nothing is being left to chance , ’ says McGilligan , ‘ It 's very heartening to see this approach . ’ |
| 15 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It would be extremely sad to see this railway go to the wall , after so many volunteers have put in so much time and money to keep steam travel alive in Hampshire . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm delighted to see more seed companies doing their best to bring them back while further improving the situation by applying modern techniques to ensure the seed is of the best quality . |
| 18 | Eva was delighted to see this message in the daily press though she was less than enthusiastic about a Bill going through Parliament to ban street marches after disturbances with the National Front and the Orange marches . |
| 19 | Sinclair will be delighted to see both players back in action . |
| 20 | It is easy to see that tree structures representing lexicons ( such as those just described ) are wasteful of memory because on average there is only one route leading from any node . |
| 21 | He also said that ‘ it is easy to see that hunger , thirst , or the need to excrete , can produce dreams of satisfaction just as well as any repressed sexual impulse . ’ |
| 22 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 23 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Well , unfortunately erm we were trying to erm get down to see them , but of course erm with the weather , how it 's been , it 's erm been virtually impossible to see any games , let alone erm go and see them . |
| 25 | Even if the site had planning permission however , it is still impossible to see any sense in Telecom 's purchase . |
| 26 | The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation . |
| 27 | The truth of the matter is that it 's difficult enough to see the difference between a 32k colour rendition of a picture and a 24 bit one ( 16 million colours ) , so it 's all but impossible to see any difference between a 32k and a 64k colour image . |
| 28 | It 's impossible to see these spines growing , but easy to record their growth with a series of photographs taken from the same place over the course of a couple of months . |
| 29 | They would be content to see another purge of the suspects , such as myself . |
| 30 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |