Example sentences of "[adj] see [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also very useful to make up a full-scale plan of the seat of the chair , to mark in the positions of the mortises and tenons , especially as , the original being glued up , it is not possible to see exactly how the original joints went together . |
| 2 | Interesting to see exactly where the prices settle down . |
| 3 | We were therefore interested to see just how well this American-made tool would perform . |
| 4 | From the wheelhouse the high-railed bow made it impossible to see immediately ahead . |
| 5 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 6 | All in all , it was a great night — good fun and a chance to meet others in the department that you 'll be lucky to see even once a year ! |
| 7 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 8 | Or someone curious to see just how far his retarded egghead act will allow him to go ? |
| 9 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 10 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 11 | To put the case simply , such a pupil may not be able to undertake a task such as cutting out a paper figure , not because of not understanding how to do so , but because of being unable to see properly how it is done . |
| 12 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 13 | There is no fun at all in repeatedly looking into bright sunlight , straining your eyes and wondering all the time what 's happening — because it is almost certain that you will be unable to see as well as you really need to . |
| 14 | That a decision may turn out to have this ultimate effect can hardly be blamed on the decider , who is unable to see that far ahead . |
| 15 | It was disturbing to see just how personal Baker was with her attacks on Linda et al . |
| 16 | Today we are moving towards more equal and mutual ways of arranging our lives , but it is still too soon to be able to see clearly how this may change our ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 17 | But at least everyone will be able to see just how much water they are using , even to the extent of checking the meter just before turning on the sprinkler , and then switching off when the dial shows enough water has been sprayed to cover the lawn or vegetable patch . |
| 18 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 19 | Yeah , what I thought see , if you come out and I 'm covering the door and this light on you 'll be able to see straight away . |
| 20 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 21 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 22 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 23 | No one was ever able to see quite how it had all been managed . |
| 24 | With his naked eye Joseph had glimpsed only a faint smudge of coastline , but through the glasses he was able to see more clearly some of the rocky peaks of the thousand-mile-long mountain spine that linked the rich southern rice lands of the Mekong delta and Saigon with the fertile plain of the Red River around Hanoi in the north . |
| 25 | You will be able to see more clearly with these . ’ |
| 26 | I counted myself lucky to be able to see that far , since on this cold October day the weather was starting to turn hostile , with squalls of rain bursting from fast-moving clouds without warning . |
| 27 | She wo n't be able to see that far , will she ? |
| 28 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 29 | It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards , without the need to glance over his shoulder . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't think you 'd be able to see so far . ’ |