Example sentences of "see [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1991 Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish representatives met in Visegrad , near Budapest , to co-ordinate as a group their negotiations with the European Communities ( EC — see also p. 38 ) and co-operate on economic and security issues . |
| 2 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 4 | European Community ( EC ) foreign ministers agreed on July 20 in Brussels to defer until autumn the proposed upgrading of a co-operation accord with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN , of which Indonesia was a member — see also p. 39005 ) after hearing an account of human rights abuses by the Indonesian army in East Timor from Joao de Deus Pinheiro , the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister . |
| 5 | Do n't see how cavalry can deploy effectively on those slopes . |
| 6 | Since halofantrine was introduced in 1989 we do not see how data collected in 1990 go against our hypothesis that drug pressure led to the resistance we observed in 1992 . |
| 7 | ‘ I can see how people get carried away , ’ she says , ‘ and I hope it wo n't happen to me . |
| 8 | Erm but things like er you could see how people would lose heart with decorating , er because fairly soon after you 'd decorated , the ceiling and the wall , erm just below the heaters and above the heater , cos it was almost , well it was almost completely black . |
| 9 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 10 | ‘ I simply ca n't see how people can eat tripe , ’ said Betty , shuddering . |
| 11 | Yes well I , I certainly in this parish , I can not see how people could n't manage to get to classes |
| 12 | At the end of the franchise period he will have nothing to sell , so I can not see how people could go away and borrow the working capital with which to run a business . |
| 13 | no , it was rationed , and er , talking about erm people 's taste having changed , I think the media has a great deal to do with that because when you look at things on television you can see how people |
| 14 | So let's just see how people have marked and what people see as the criteria . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't see how people can say it was n't a good race , ’ he said . |
| 16 | When people hover for a tip , it 's excruciating , says Jon , 34 ‘ I do n't see why people working in certain industries should be singled out for special treatment . |
| 17 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 18 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 19 | I can never see why people refuse to give autographs , for example — it puts such a dampener on things . |
| 20 | She did n't see why people were supposed to work hard if you ground their noses ; it seemed more likely that they 'd work hard if you promised to grind their noses if they did n't . |
| 21 | You can see why people do n't work in this country . |
| 22 | a hell of a lot really , normally you would n't have the vinyl and normally I would think you would only put the tongue and groove not out of the polystyrene behind it and the vinyl , I ca n't see why people want tongue and groove that they go to all those lengths would you ? |
| 23 | Then , by pouring a canful of water into the empty bottle , they saw where £1.19 's worth came in the bottle ( see Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 24 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 25 | New research also stresses empirical work , using controlled experiments to see how people behave in real bargaining situations . |
| 26 | It would be nice to see how people like Manfred Trenz design their games . |
| 27 | Long ago , near the beginning of things , when the earth was almost all covered in forest , God sent down the angel Gabriel to see how people were getting along , and if they had enough to eat . |
| 28 | I mean the Methodist Church has launched six new liturgies for communion , as experiments to see how people react to them . |
| 29 | The object is to see how people perceive one another in age terms , and how far age is a factor in the allocation of roles and responsibilities and in the choice of friends . |
| 30 | Er I I suppose it 's to see how people use the English language . |