Example sentences of "[that] we [verb] see " in BNC.

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1 It was not really until the emergence of a more holistic Green politics four or five years ago that we began to see how powerful are the connections between those two apparently separate sets of concerns .
2 It was only after Patrick Jenkin became Industry Secretary that we began to see the proliferation of industrial support schemes .
3 It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter .
4 That we 've seen her brother ! ’ said Jackie , exhilarated by the run , but wheezing slightly .
5 Not that we 've seen one of them for miles .
6 Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain .
7 So this is a much more familiar model of democracy to us than any of the others that we 've seen so far
8 Erm , sir , I want to address the point , if it 's the right time about the level of housing provision the Greater York area in particular , erm that we 've seen round the table here that we have special circumstances applying to York , and to its surrounding area .
9 The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads .
10 that we 've seen from St John Rivers .
11 So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy .
12 Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere .
13 What are , finally , what are the benefits that we 've seen here ?
14 They 're both flats that we 've seen .
15 exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there
16 After things that we 've seen in that field .
17 Well I think that we 've seen the erm tremendous growth in word processors , and this is erm an area which I feel will develop enormously , and it really would be quite possible for nearly every home to have a word processor within it .
18 What are your views on this local and national conflict that we 've seen perhaps up there in Banbury ?
19 I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ?
20 Not that we 'd seen much of Mary lately .
21 Well I then remembered that we 'd seen it and it 's in the grounds .
22 Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space .
23 Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ?
24 They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ?
25 Our senses may inform us that any single whole is equal to all its parts ; but not that all wholes in the world are so , unless we could suppose , that we had seen or felt them all .
26 It was the bus that we had seen twice every day for the last three days , making its regular coastal run between Bulukumba and Makassar .
27 Almost without exception , they were breathtakingly beautiful ; their every movement a languid dance , and their smiles open and confident — so different from the shy tittering behind shawls that we had seen amongst the Bugis girls .
28 But you 've raised a very valid point and it 's one that we need to see through to the end .
29 Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments .
30 This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life .
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