Example sentences of "see its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was interested to see its views . |
| 2 | The second , that the only way to solve the problem on the canvas was to see its subject again in the flesh , which thought he welcomed , and went to dreams relieved of his frauds and pieties , smiling to think of having the rare thing 's face before him once again . |
| 3 | Opera Northern Ireland wanted local children to see its dress rehearsal of the popular musical , and regarded it as an opportunity to help with community development . |
| 4 | If she had come and said , ‘ There 's a flower growing in the garden at number 67 ’ , though this would also be true , it would be hard to see its relevance . |
| 5 | If pupils are disaffected with school because they fail to see its relevance to the labour market , then non-sexist curricula may become yet another target for displays of boredom and alienation , yet another part of the school fabric to be attacked . |
| 6 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 7 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 8 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 9 | A tiny anonymous figure is represented , in isolation against a background of vivid colours , as a self-willed individual , kneeling , crawling , sleeping or learning to see its reflection in a pool . |
| 10 | One reason for this , they argue , is that it is a ‘ responsibility ’ for the Government to see its majority reduced by one vote with the appointment of the Speaker . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , Portugal 's government said it would cease defending the escudo , and that it , too , wanted to see its currency devalued . |
| 12 | We would will this as part of the social contract because our own selfishness would enable us to see its necessity . |
| 13 | It was a sore point with some villagers who never wished it there and were glad to see its removal during the 1939–45 war for scrap along with the church railings . |
| 14 | Only one country is expected to see its GNP decline between the two years : Sweden , with a 0.5% drop . |
| 15 | We might never be able to take apart the atomic clock to see its wheels and springs , but there would still be the metaphysically soothing thought of its steady ticking . |
| 16 | WordPerfect in the UK has an ongoing upgrade policy — the company likes to see its users keeping abreast of the times , and offers upgrades to new versions of its programs at reasonable cost . |
| 17 | She paused again to see its silhouette against the dimming sky . |
| 18 | CA says its customers are particularly keen to see its IDMS and Datacom database products — out at 5,000 development sites and with 50,000 applications — ported to open systems — these should go into beta on HP next January . |
| 19 | The parasite would not live to see its success . |
| 20 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 21 | I am anxious to see its treasures . ’ |
| 22 | DASA 's motives smack of industrial machismo and a desire to see its name on the nose of a jet . |
| 23 | When Warwickshire unexpectedly won the county championship in 1911 , the number of people coming to see its matches doubled . |
| 24 | In Alphaville a child is unlikely to see its father . |
| 25 | Given agreed formulae and atomic weights , the Periodic Table was waiting to be discovered ; Mendeleev 's contribution was to stake his reputation on it , and to see its power . |
| 26 | It was irritation , doubtless the result of some ill doing or extravagance on my own part , making me hate to see its image elsewhere . |
| 27 | The true whole divine power remained hidden and mysterious and mortal man was unable to see its perfection . |
| 28 | In the 1980s , management came to see its information system as part of a variety of decision support systems . |
| 29 | The glass in which the ego seeks to see its face is dark indeed . |
| 30 | But the idea that it is ‘ unfair ’ for those who backed the biggest party in a coalition to see its policy then diluted is bogus : in politics as in marriage , if you can not win outright , you must compromise . |