Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell him you are going to dine at Auguste 's before being taken to see La Traviata , ’ Madame instructed , ‘ by one of the richest and most influential men in Boston . ’ |
| 2 | Are parents going to be invited to see talented children involved in a theatrical performance or are they coming just to see their child ‘ doing something ’ on the stage with all the other children in the school ? |
| 3 | Registration at HM Land Registry is required to be made in Form 99 ( The Land Registration ( Matrimonial Homes ) Rules 1990 SI No 1360 ) ( no fee required ) ; an official search of the index map at HM Land Registry ( Form 96 ) will need to be made to see if the land is registered unless the position is known without doubt . |
| 4 | The case was adjourned until Monday for the condition of a submachine gun to be checked to see if it was capable of being fired . |
| 5 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 6 | terminal five does n't exist , it could be , that could be the case , research has to be done to see what er , yeah it could be that air , air line capacity and air line will drop as a result of er forward thinking rail scheme and there is evidence from the Rhone to Seine Rider Scheme that 's been undertaken by the French , German and Swiss governments of the a drop in demand for internal flights in those areas and because of the German equipment everything is there . |
| 7 | To be asked to see myself as one in solidarity with first-century women strains my credulity . |
| 8 | Multiple record buckets can not be handled in this way , as groups of records that randomize to the same bucket do not generally have anything else in common , so that the whole bucket has to be searched to see if the desired record is in it . |
| 9 | I 'd arranged , then immediately forgotten ( not entirely out of lack of self-interest do I support AMNASS ) , for a young doctor and a film crew to come to my house to film myself and Jack being blood tested for a little-known disease called Tay-Sachs , in order to encourage people to be tested to see whether they were carriers . |
| 10 | We ought to be coming to see that . |
| 11 | It is possible and indeed advisable to stipulate in the rent review clause for such works to be disregarded see fourth Schedule paragraph 1.4.3 — but the works will not be disregarded on a renewal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 |
| 12 | I never used to say that , I used to keep my mouth shut and say put a cross against his name , see not to be trusted see the , you 've got ta do it yourself see . |
| 13 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 14 | But other leases contain wording which says that the arbitrator must be " an independent surveyor " : so the wording of each clause will have to be considered to see whether the word " independent " carries any particular message about the status of the referee . |
| 15 | No , I says to her , I says Saturday , I says er if you get stuck , I says we 're supposed to be going to see his nan into Ashley House up anyway , I told Bill I says , eh ! |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Tunstall particularly said that no one was to be admitted to see her , ’ said Baines plaintively . |
| 17 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 18 | Brooke said that " certain exploratory steps " ( thought to involve talks with Ulster Unionists and with the Social Democratic and Labour Party ) remained to be taken to see whether an agreement could be reached . |
| 19 | It has to be tried to see the effect ! |
| 20 | The implications of introducing a national scheme of criminal injuries compensation for the victims of violent crime , one of the last causes espoused by Margery Fry , were to be investigated to see if a workable scheme could be devised . |
| 21 | He explained that he had fought tooth and nail to be allowed to see the men in custody since the time of the arrests . |
| 22 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 23 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 24 | Before any finds are washed and marked , they have to be sorted to see which are in need of conservation . |
| 25 | A new programme , called the Leeds Financial Sector Initiative , is soon to be launched to see how Leeds can capitalise on its new lead . |