Example sentences of "be [adj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 2 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 3 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
| 4 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 5 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 6 | You should not smoke if you are pregnant see page 19 . |
| 7 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 8 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 9 | The modern convergence , which the contemporary sociology of culture embodies , is in fact an attempt to rework , from a particular set of interests , those general social and sociological ideas within which it has been possible to see communication , language and art as marginal and peripheral , or as at best secondary and derived social processes . |
| 10 | I have this day bid farewell to the Misses Wynne , two English ladies who have been as friends to me and I am sorry to see them go , and have taken in Miss Hawarth , an old friend of Mr Browning 's together with two other ladies who will stay until Easter . |
| 11 | I am sorry to see the number of subscribers fall so vastly short of what appeared to the other volume . |
| 12 | Reg Brealey said yesterday : ‘ I am sorry to see the club in this position . ’ |
| 13 | This garden 's so important I am sorry to see people coming here and hearing instead of the silence which inspired some of the world 's greatest music the jangling of cash tills in shops . |
| 14 | The results are clear to see : divorce , child and wife abuse , alcoholism and drug addiction . |
| 15 | The dangers are clear to see . |
| 16 | Just yards from the sites earmarked for development , the effects of the recession are clear to see . |
| 17 | If you are happy to go on living under the constant threat of war , if you are prepared to see the discoveries of science perverted by inadequate people to the creation of foul weapons , what can I do ? |
| 18 | It does not matter that you may perceive a witness to be a witness for the opposition ; although it will happen rarely , if they are prepared to see you , go and see them . |
| 19 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 20 | It would have been interesting to see the teachers ' reactions to questions about profits from burglary or tax evasion rather than investment . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks . |
| 22 | ( 9 ) Brightly coloured ducks are easier to see . |
| 23 | Longer words are easier to see than short ones . |
| 24 | This duplication is necessary because some differences in the colour and texture of soil are easier to see on black and white photographs and some are easier to see in colour . |
| 25 | This duplication is necessary because some differences in the colour and texture of soil are easier to see on black and white photographs and some are easier to see in colour . |
| 26 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 27 | The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision … |
| 28 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 29 | Goodlad has been careful to see that the reactions of all participants — pupils , students and teachers — are recorded to measure the success of the scheme . |
| 30 | Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms . |