Example sentences of "to see [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 2 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 3 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 4 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 5 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 6 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 7 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 8 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |
| 9 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 10 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 11 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 12 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 13 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 14 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 15 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 16 | Now spent , exhausted , heavier than ever , we pull ourselves off this fun-float , this transport of delight , to see beneath us a crushed flower , a stamped upon camellia , its pollen and sap smeared like blood on the infertile ground , the dry ground , the any old iron , lurking-tetanus ground . |
| 17 | Melchizedek 's authority ( the " tithe " was God 's portion , so by giving Melchizedek a tenth of everything Abram recognized him as God 's representative ) , his lack of any named ancestors and descendants ( extremely important for any man claiming kingship or priesthood ) , and his dual role as priest and king , led later writers to see in him a foreshadowing of the Messiah ( see Psalm 110:4 ; Hebrews 7:1–10 ) . |
| 18 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 19 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 20 | This , a piece whose mellow , introverted character has led many commentators to see in it the hand of a composer approaching the end of his life , was the work with which Mozart made his last public appearance , in March at a benefit concert for a clarinettist friend . |
| 21 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 22 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 23 | ‘ Excuse me , Hsiao Chi , but my master asked me to see to your every wish . ’ |