Example sentences of "[adv] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 2 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 3 | And you 've all seen and probably participated in the scene where a sequence of such meeting is brought to its climax by one partner coming right out with the movie cliché ‘ We ca n't go on meeting like this ’ or less effectively ‘ Long time no see ! ’ |
| 4 | Those two are n't high enough see that really need to be up there does n't it . |
| 5 | It was acknowledged that some of the party 's previous policies had been potentially divisive , and the review was widely seen as both an attempt to attract new voters and as a means of attracting potential coalition partners from among the opposition parties . |
| 6 | Environmentalists point out , however , that the fall in emissions was largely due to the economic recession ; if the UK economy revives , consumption and emissions will increase as a result and further measures will have to be taken to meet the target , which is in any case widely seen as very modest . |
| 7 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 8 | It 's just to see because then the |
| 9 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 10 | More and more parents every year are opting for independent schooling for their children : it is no longer seen as exclusively the preserve of a privileged class . |
| 11 | Theologically separated Christians are no longer seen as simply ‘ outside ’ the Church , ( except by some internal desire on their part ) but , on the contrary , recognized as being united visibly with the Church even if in a state of ‘ imperfect ’ communion . |
| 12 | On the immediate constitutional front , corruption was attacked ; virtual representation was no longer seen as enough ; and whilst some attacked the rights of landed property in politics urging the principle that every man of means should be directly represented , some went further to attack the political privilege of all property arguing for the " rights of man " , complete equality , and a democratic republic based on the true sovereignty of all the people . |
| 13 | The less the prospect — and most cases which reach this point will be hopeless — the less the obligation to continue treatment , including the use of the ventilator , which is thus seen as only one factor of many which have to be considered . |
| 14 | They also stressed the difference between adoption and fostering , not seen as simply one of length of placement : often the aim of fostering was restoration of the child to the natural family , or at least the maintenance of contact with it . |
| 15 | The task of price theory is not seen as primarily concerned with the configuration of prices and quantities that satisfies the conditions for equilibrium . [ … ] |
| 16 | Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important , this state of affairs has not come to the fore . |
| 17 | But in Morocco even that was not seen as totally out of the question . |
| 18 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 19 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 20 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |
| 21 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 22 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 23 | We 've already seen that just as we have different tastes , so we all have different sensitivities . |
| 24 | We have already seen that even within age cohorts women are more likely to experience poverty and low incomes . |
| 25 | We have already seen that indirectly the question in utterance ( i ) must be understood as a request . |
| 26 | The British interpretation of Nato 's " trip-wire " strategy was already seen as disturbingly simplistic . |
| 27 | Bonn , The Hague and London would much prefer the Community to keep to this narrow route to EMU , although the British Government still does not see that even its competing currencies alternative leads to a European central bank . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you not see that over a million wearying years of galactic history , so-called peace has invariably had its prelude in attack , so that the seeds of further conflict were sown ? |
| 29 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 30 | I 'd sooner see that kinda thing , than er , sponsoring a whole , sort of , like a hall , or something like that . |