Example sentences of "[adj] see [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 2 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 3 | He had not objected to being photographed but was upset to see photographs of himself and a feature in the Sunday Mail of 4 October 1990 headed ‘ The sheer agony of a food allergy . ’ |
| 4 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 5 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 6 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 7 | It is therefore possible to see movements in interest rates in the money markets as a whole in advance of changes led by the Bank of England . |
| 8 | Although it is possible to see networks as a mechanism through which workers exercise some ‘ degree of control over their labour market , it is important to acknowledge the extent to which they are , by definition , discriminatory . |
| 9 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 10 | Please note that the studio is also used as a theatre , bistro and rehearsal space , so it is often only possible to see exhibitions after 6pm . |
| 11 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 12 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |
| 13 | A new breed of archaeologist is emerging — more open-minded and willing to see significance in the detail of the countryside which is slowly disappearing . |
| 14 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 16 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 17 | It is true that the French are prone to see things in rather sombre terms : it suits their sense of drama . |
| 18 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 19 | Fearing a drug smuggling gang at work , we were relieved to see cases of Mars bars being offloaded — by order of Dom Mintoff . |
| 20 | Betty was so relieved to see Lydia in spirits again that she did n't care at all that it was Beuno who had wrought the transformation . |
| 21 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 22 | Sales are going very well and Professor Jones was delighted to see copies at every location he visited in Brittany last summer . |
| 23 | We did not offer the all-day hospitality of previous years but were delighted to see members at the tea parties we organised , and enjoyed chatting with visitors to our stand in the Women in the Rural Community tent . |
| 24 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
| 25 | I am delighted to see people like Campling dealing with this subject with such caring . |
| 26 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 27 | It is easy to see beauty in a garden but how can it be seen in our fellow-men ? |
| 28 | Dr Granville wrote : ‘ July is much too early to see Harrogate to advantage . |
| 29 | The fundamental difference is Labour sees Scotland as its territory . |
| 30 | At mirrors , quick to see spots on others . |