Example sentences of "[noun] would see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from what Dora would see as a disaster for her friend , her own life-style could be on the line . |
| 2 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 3 | And she would marry him — Bull O'Malley would see to that . |
| 4 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 5 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 6 | If Leary got nothing else , Rain would see to it that he got that . |
| 7 | Meh'Lindi would see to this subtly . |
| 8 | Amanda would see to that . |
| 9 | His own innate Jupiterian integrity would see to that . |
| 10 | Big Joe would see to that , or one of his cronies . |
| 11 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 12 | She 'd seen more of life and death at twenty-six than most people would see in their entire lifetime . |
| 13 | We were right ( and jubilantly so ) that revolution in the Philippines would see off dictator Ferdinand Marcos . |
| 14 | In these great welfare state totalitarianisms therefore , as in the modern world , child-rearing regimes could regress to pre-agricultural styles , and oral indulgence , Oedipal rivalry and incestuous fixation could all be allowed to occur in the individual because the state bureaucracies would see to it that none of the undesirable consequences of these things occurred in reality . |
| 15 | The policy would see at least 80 per cent of school budgets handed from councils to headteachers , who would then allocate them in consultation with parents on the school boards . |
| 16 | The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me . |
| 17 | Patrick thought about feigning surprise or shock , but knew the older man would see through him . |
| 18 | She was n't likely to become enchanted for the second time this evening — her common sense would see to that . |
| 19 | The portiere barked some instructions at the boy and made Sandison to understand that Aldo would see to it that the letter got posted . |
| 20 | This is what most career advisers would see as the recommended approach . |
| 21 | His friends would never lack : his Bank would see to that . |
| 22 | Mrs. Bidwell would see to that . " |
| 23 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 24 | ‘ No , but Leo would see to it for you , while you were here . |
| 25 | Sooner or later , events would see to his recall . " |
| 26 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 27 | Although Elizabeth felt reluctant , she was thankful to settle down in bed , knowing that her mother would see to Edward and that her sister would gladly take on her share of the farm-work . |
| 28 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |