Example sentences of "[adj] we [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | This we have seen do in Formen . |
| 2 | To create a safe and reliable vehicle the brakes need uprating to LWB specification with a servo The exhaust system needs fabricating properly and all fuel lines , water pipes and wiring needs to be properly engineered If you are not a competent engineer I would recommend you did not attempt this We have seen many disastrous conversions ! |
| 3 | To understand this we have to see that Mill is basing his answer to one question on his answer to another . |
| 4 | This month from the 10th to the 31st we get to see it at Metro . |
| 5 | Problem 2 We 've seen that every partition on a set A gives rise to an e.r. |
| 6 | His report says : ’ Inmate accommodation was among the worst we had seen ’ in his report on the prison . |
| 7 | Kite 's numbers are about the worst we 've seen in years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure we 've seen the bottom of the industry decline yet . ’ |
| 9 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 10 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 11 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 12 | If your programme is like many we have seen , you will probably have more than 10 lectures per week , and you will have to work with greater efficiency and use more of the available 36 hours . |
| 13 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 14 | This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far . |
| 15 | In 2 we have looked at how the formal system operates between as well as within sentences ; in 3 we have seen how knowledge of the world ( about cats and gates , for example ) or of the culture ( about social roles and relationships ) enables people to make their language function as they intend and to understand how others do the same to them . |
| 16 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 17 | was quite big we went to see last night , there was quite a few people around |
| 18 | In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices , or neighbourhood forums . |
| 19 | That 's the two we 've seen . |
| 20 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 21 | In the 1980s we have seen greater emphasis than heretofore on the voice of the consumer . |
| 22 | However , against this statutory backdrop , the professional bodies have developed a policy-making role and , following the example set in the USA , with the introduction of the Accounting Standards Board in 1990 we have seen the establishment of a standard-setting body which is neither government nor the accounting profession . |
| 23 | For my part , I 'm only glad that that 's the last we 've seen of him — ( And he glances offstage and turns front , his face betraying the fact that HAMLET is there . ) |
| 24 | A spokesman said : ‘ At last we have seen some action . |
| 25 | Or indeed the dozens we have seen like it . |