Example sentences of "[vb base] to see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 2 | Law of good continuity Then you tend to get things like closure where , instead of seeing four separated lines , you tend to see a square or a rectangle or whatever . |
| 3 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 4 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 5 | When I paint , I tend to see a colour , put that down , then move to something else and put that down , hopefully with a bit of shape as well . |
| 6 | that people tend to see a meeting as having to be really , oh it 's got ta be at ten to five , it 's got ta |
| 7 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 8 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 9 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 10 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 11 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 12 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 13 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 14 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 15 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 16 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 17 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 18 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 19 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 20 | We want to see a country in which women can go about their lives without fear of attack , where the colour of someone 's skin is not a virtual guarantee of unemployment , where work — whether social , productive or domestic — would be properly valued and regarded . |
| 21 | Anybody want to see a teddy bear |
| 22 | ‘ You want to see a fight ? ’ he said . |
| 23 | I never want to see a bicycle again , even in a picture . ’ |
| 24 | The Institute of Advanced Motoring 's 120,000 members desperately want to see a change in the law . |
| 25 | There is also speculation that the rebels want to see a change of manager . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect they want to see a bit of night life , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 27 | I want to see a beach ! |
| 28 | Okay , if you want to see a sample of |
| 29 | By that time , we want to see a future which demonstrates that nuclear power can be produced safely and economically . |
| 30 | Because we want to see a review of the whole system of union representation within the council to see whether it 's an appropriate sort of representation for an organisation of this size . |