Example sentences of "to see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he 'll have to see about the next time Kyle cos he was |
| 2 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 3 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 4 | And what changes can we expect to see during the coming year ? |
| 5 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 6 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 7 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 8 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 9 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 10 | ARBROATH struck four times at Bayview last night to see off the Scottish Cup challenge of East Fife and advance to a home quarter-final tie with Rangers . |
| 11 | MONICA SELES was forced into a dramatic change of tactic to see off the stubborn challenge of Jana Novotna and reach the semi-finals of the Virginia Slims Championship in New York . |
| 12 | They wanted finally to see off the third party ; predictably , they failed . ) |
| 13 | IF ONLY one side had a clear lead , what parties there would be : parties to welcome home John Major , parties to see off the blasted yoke of Tory rule , parties for the sake of parties . |
| 14 | In the same way , it 's the heathen elements of Pop that trouble the sober-minded rock fan , keen to see through the superficial , engage with the depth of an artist , |
| 15 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 16 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 17 | Should you say , ‘ Unless you stop quarrelling with your sister I wo n't be able to finish my work and there wo n't be time for a story ’ , you must be prepared to see through the planned , but logical , consequences . |
| 18 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
| 19 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 20 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 21 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 22 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 23 | This method of locating those with power , the ‘ reputational method ’ , was presumed to allow one to see behind the democratic facade of the formally democratic institutions of American government and locate those who really held political power . |
| 24 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 25 | Very well , that is carried certainly , nem con , quite possibly unanimous although it 's rather hard to see into the far corners . |
| 26 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 27 | Perspex screens will allow visitors to see into the worst-hit rooms . |
| 28 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 29 | And their small size enables tiny arthropods , some almost too small to see with the naked eye , to live in crannies , within the soil , between sand grains , and the like . |
| 30 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |