Example sentences of "[adj] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats will be depressed to see that only 40pc of Alliance voters in 1987 are now ready to vote for Peter Bergg . |
| 2 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 3 | The three US service manuals are currently in process of being updated , and it will be interesting to see whether either they , or the new UK tri-service manual which is now in an advanced state of preparation , say anything more specific about possible limits of one kind or another to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 5 | It 's sad to see that so many people feel that they have to move away . |
| 6 | As one who admires much of what WTA has done and enjoys watching the best women players compete against each other , because the entertainment value they produce can often be tremendous , I was sad to see that apparently they still do not appreciate how relatively well off they are under the present set-up and how much they could stand to lose from open warfare in the game . |
| 7 | It is easy to see that both ( i ) paraphrase and ( ii ) translation , if understood as the expression of the same content in different words , presuppose a dualist philosophy . |
| 8 | From the way her companion was looking at her it was easy to see that only part of his mind was concerned with art . |
| 9 | so I ca n't get cold so I get , sometimes I get a coronary if I get very cold so I have to keep warm see but otherwise dear erm I think the New Town is really great I do |
| 10 | After Ms de Meaner 's attack on those whose thoughts rarely leave the subject of sex , I was glad to see that only two entrants picked condoms . |
| 11 | It 's good to see that so many children are becoming literate in the ways of the countryside and gaining knowledge of their responsibility for the planet . |
| 12 | In other words , although a lot is said about " silent letters " , it 's more helpful to see that almost all words have " silent letters " in a sense , and that they are n't silent at all , but are attempts originally to symbolise regional or personal differences in pronunciation . |
| 13 | It is important to see that even this qualified recognition of authority , the recognition of the authority of just governments to impose prima facie obligations on their subjects , can not be supported by the argument of the normal justification thesis . |
| 14 | It was dreadful to see and all the more frightening for the misery of the expression which no attempt at smiling could lift . |
| 15 | There may have been no understanding whatever of the concept of not being able to see as well as other people . |
| 16 | At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end . |
| 17 | A jerking pop star was wielding his guitar as the credits rolled , his parodic sexual gyrations so grotesque that it was difficult to see that even the besotted young could find them erotic . |
| 18 | So fluffy to see but so hard to the touch . |
| 19 | Be nice to see that really I suppose . |
| 20 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 21 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |
| 22 | And he will be pleasantly surprised to see that only three horses line up against his rising star . |