Example sentences of "is see " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 2 | It 's a good enough excuse that you need to check for gaffs , but the real reason for dry-assembly is to see what this hitherto fictitious table looks like . |
| 3 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 4 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 5 | One is to see if adventurous buying , lavish displays and good service ( which includes opening until 7pm and for a half-day on Sunday ) will galvanise the public . |
| 6 | Toshack has a two-year contract worth £600,000 ( figure courtesy of The Sun ) and an awful lot to do if he is to see it out . |
| 7 | And the excitement of democracy , of being a member of a cabinet or whatever , is to see how these forces inter-relate . ’ |
| 8 | I have often thought that one of the most interesting things for doctors about their patients is to see whether they survive or not . |
| 9 | It is to see whether , when someone pinches Rockall , we shall sail to replant the Union flag upon it , exclaiming ‘ Rejoice , rejoice , ’ as when we repossessed the likewise uninhabited South Georgia . |
| 10 | The best way to illustrate a typical day in the life of the Corps is to see What one man , in this case Warrant Officer Class 2(WO2) C Wilkinson , did on 30 June 1989 . |
| 11 | One objective of Mr Grosz is to see that the HSWP holds its party congress , as in ‘ normal ’ times , early next year . |
| 12 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 13 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 14 | The governor is to see the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , and the minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs , Mr Francis Maude . |
| 15 | So one way to sort out the various GUTs is to see which can be used to tell believable — and , ideally , testable — stories about the big bang . |
| 16 | The reward is to see more plainly the shape and content of Zuwaya political ideas . |
| 17 | One , the organism-centred way , is to see the individual organism as the centre of interest , since it is individuals upon which selection acts : individuals survive and reproduce , or they die . |
| 18 | ‘ What we 've done , in reappraising policies in light of values , is to see our task not as we did in the past , as the relief of poverty or the advancement of equality , but as giving individuals the opportunity to realise their potential to the full , ’ he says . |
| 19 | What is fascinating is to see his mastering a new style and technique , and still managing to rivet our attention as of old . |
| 20 | But with tax payments to the Government last year of £755m eating into slim profits , Mr Horton is to see Mr Lamont shortly to try to produce a change of mind . |
| 21 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 22 | Our concern is to see whether any new mechanism of decline is at work . ’ |
| 23 | During the transfer to your resort , they will answer your questions and later , at a welcome meeting , will tell you all you need to know about your location ; including what there is to see and do . |
| 24 | All I need is to see the direction . |
| 25 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 26 | However , it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so . |
| 27 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 28 | You will always be welcomed , but the real surprise is to see how beautifully most chapels are kept . |
| 29 | To see [ Brief Encounter ] again … at the Baker Street Classic , is to see another film entirely … the audience in this usually polite and certainly middle-class hall could n't restrain its derision and repeatedly burst into angry exasperated laughter … a well-spoken young lady … finally cried out ‘ Where the hell is Milford Junction anyway ? ’ |
| 30 | To read further is to see Morrissey 's message of proof that the school system is not the only way forward . |