Example sentences of "see [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A player I would love to see play for Buraspor . ’ |
| 2 | It 's 5.30 a.m. in the morning and a baby lamb is about to see daylight for the very first time . |
| 3 | He had n't been able to see Topaz for over two weeks because Virginia had been ill . |
| 4 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 5 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 6 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 7 | Ten of the Ver 's 15 miles have not seen water for more than five years . |
| 8 | Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing . |
| 9 | Nick stuffed and stuffed as if he had n't seen food for weeks but Carrie could hardly eat anything . |
| 10 | Major sees hope for improvement |
| 11 | Israel sees hope for peace talks after UN switch |
| 12 | Within this ambiguity and unclarity , Shallis sees room for an entirely different approach to the whole question of time . |
| 13 | Mr Randall said : ‘ In general terms , we do see room for hacking to be made a criminal offence . ’ |
| 14 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 15 | When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area . |
| 16 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 17 | I commend it to Ministers , but , bearing in mind our debates in Committee , I confess that I do not do so with any great hope that they will see sense for once and will accept this sensible recommendation . |
| 18 | Thus Pound was quite ready , and became eager , to deliver a message , though with more obliquities and delays than the impatiently moralistic reader could see reason for ; whereas Eliot , true to his inheritance from French symbolisme , was sceptical and chary of conveying in poetry any message at all . |
| 19 | Chamberlin ( 1980 ) tends to see advocacy for rights and advocacy or brokerage for services as opposing forces , but others ( Anthony and Blanch , 1989 ; Lecklitner and Greenberg , 1983 ; and Rappaport , 1981 ) see advocacy as part of a more general movement for improvement in the social conditions of mentally ill people . |
| 20 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 21 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 22 | Both Tawney and Matthews saw education for trade unionists as a growth point of great potential . |
| 23 | There are , of course , other power tool tables which will perform both tasks together at the outset , but the 750 gives you the option of not adding the table if you do n't need it , and meanwhile , having the versatility of an extremely useful work and saw bench for clamping , gripping and marking . |
| 24 | During eight American tours , two years in South America , and in South Africa , Australasia , India , and the Far East , thousands saw ballet for the first time . |
| 25 | The older boys immediately saw Piggy for what he looked like . |
| 26 | Indeed , we should like to see Fund for the Bank of Savings funds released to the TSBs earlier than planned , to speed this . |
| 27 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 28 | He said have you seen Kevin out in street I said I 'm not fucking hell would I want to see Kev for ? |
| 29 | Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all . |
| 30 | One industry chief invited to the ‘ round table ’ declares that top businessmen will stop coming unless they see advantage for themselves . |