Example sentences of "[be] see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 2 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 3 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 4 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 5 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 6 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 7 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 8 | You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment . |
| 9 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 10 | Instead , we 're seeing the cynical deliberate closure of Sunderland ship builders , the refusal to allow Camel Laird 's retained ship building on the Mersey by re-zed designating them to allow the intervention and , of course , we 've seen the employees encouraged to enter into fight to death competitions which have weakened the industry , competitions that have clearly caused the receivership of Swan Hunters . |
| 11 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 12 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 13 | ‘ I take it you 'll be seeing the young lady 's looked after , Doctor ? |
| 14 | Becky assumed that she would not be seeing the young officer again . |
| 15 | The cup was halfway to her mouth when she said , ‘ We wo n't be seeing the New Year in then ? ’ |
| 16 | But you 'll be seeing the old man , of course . |
| 17 | In other words , McCreery would be seeing the commanding officers in 6 Armoured Division who on 19 May had expressed disquiet over the Yugoslav repatriations , as had been reported by Maj Mennell on his return to Division HQ . |
| 18 | ‘ And soon ’ — Dr Reid waved a hand dramatically — ‘ you 'll be seeing the eighth wonder of the world . |
| 19 | In the cave could be seen the vague outlines of a rocking horse and the sharper scarlet of its flaring nostrils , and stiff-limbed puppets , dressed in rich , sombre colours , dangling from their strings ; but the brown varnish of the horse and the plums and purples of the puppets made such a murk together that very little could be seen . |
| 20 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 21 | Near the top of the hill stood the large white building which was the San Martino Museum and above it , and in contrast to the museum 's firm elegant lines , could be seen the solid brown ramparts of St Elmo 's Castle . |
| 22 | Beyond can be seen the outside world of ‘ Natures endless treasurie ’ , with a telescope trained on the heavens . |
| 23 | The reply was that he could be seen the following Wednesday for a fee of £45 . |
| 24 | The commander still wears the standard green AFV crew overalls ; on his left upper sleeve may be seen the small green shamrock patch worn by QRIH tank commanders — see accompanying mono photograph . |
| 25 | In S. Vitale , in particular , can be seen the typical combination of subjects in the Bible story depicted next to the Emperor Justinian , his Queen and his Court . |
| 26 | In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop . |
| 27 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 28 | Here again , however , can be seen the persisting tendency to link the conduct of foreign policy with miscellaneous internal functions ; for the First Secretariat of State , as it was usually known , acquired in 1782 control of the Madrid police . |
| 29 | Under the brown stains could clearly be seen the white bumps of calluses . |
| 30 | There is an inexorable logic about McCabe 's observation of the process by which the child Francie 's engaging , restless , questioning personality is gradually mutated by a brutalising absence of love or understanding or any sort of kindness , into that of a deranged adult murderer , behind whose insane and degraded behaviour , are still to be seen the vestigial lineaments of an injured child . |