Example sentences of "[modal v] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 2 | Let's see that again from the camera in Merv Hughes 's moustache |
| 3 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 4 | Looking at the drawing of the Great Casterton section through new eyes , I could see that here also a thin depth of rampart remained under the wall foundation . |
| 5 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 6 | But I was at university in the early '60s , and I could see that even my sister 's generation , 10 years later , was much bolder about this eternal exhausting , juggling compromise of home and work . ’ |
| 7 | A rich girl , then ; but he could see that already from the delicacy of her skin , and the fine soft hands which lay crossed over her small breasts . |
| 8 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 9 | I could see that only by changing our own personal worlds will we change the world at large . |
| 10 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 11 | When he looked back he could see that once more she hugged her children to her . |
| 12 | He was playing a glove , she could see that now , through the smoke and hi-tech gloom . |
| 13 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 14 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 15 | But we shall see as well that the Conservative belief , for both retributive and deterrent purposes , in punishment by incarceration , has at least had to acknowledge economic realities . |
| 16 | You will see that already it is possible to effect a considerable amount of customisation to what was a factory preset . |
| 17 | ‘ Take a look behind , nephew , ’ came the answer , ‘ and you will see that already the litter carrying the prince has turned off for Westminster ! ’ |
| 18 | Compare these prices with cost new and you will see that even the high discounts currently available on new cars become an irrelevance in the face of such horrendous depreciation . |
| 19 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 20 | Wander around any English country churchyard and you will see that here , too , child mortality was very common in the past , even at the start of the century . |
| 21 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 22 | You will see that almost without exception they have been included in this final document . |
| 23 | If an analysis was carried out , you will see that as far as religion is concerned , there is a 50–50 ratio , although 80 of people come from West Belfast itself . |
| 24 | ‘ I can see that eventually I shall lose my very good assistant and you will lose your partner . |
| 25 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 26 | In the light of this discussion , we can see that even before Socrates there was a spirit hostile to the Dionysiac . |
| 27 | Your pavement philosopher can see that even when the locals are n't trend-setters , they 're certainly trend-getters . |
| 28 | An enchanting Greek relief ( metope or section of a frieze ) from Reggio ( Rhegium ) with two running or dancing nymphs ( fig. 25 ) shows in its sophisticated movement and modelling that it belongs later in the century , but from the fall of the hair we can see that here too the faces were turned towards us . |
| 29 | If we consider briefly the effect of bombing on that section of the community that was potentially the most vulnerable — the children we can see that again the effects varied . |
| 30 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |