Example sentences of "[adj] see [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is somewhat refreshing to see a North-East industrialist make a success of his business in relative anonymity . |
| 2 | Yet at one time it used to look quite strange to see a girl teacher but |
| 3 | It seems strange to see a vacuum cleaner so near the beach . |
| 4 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ Do you find it strange to see the Sun Chamber so empty , Captain ? ’ and Fergus thought : oho ! she is calling me Captain . |
| 6 | He would be sorry to see the service close . |
| 7 | Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing . |
| 8 | It will then be possible to see the loco disposal taking place at the shed . |
| 9 | But it would be wrong to see The Waste Land as ‘ controlling … ordering … giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history ’ in the way that Eliot believed Ulysses did . |
| 10 | Itd be interesting to see the corner count for this game . |
| 11 | I think by the demonstration this morning that people are not prepared to see the building fall down and I think that , erm if necessary , people will do everything within their power to prevent the erm the contractors moving in . |
| 12 | John Keegan of the IDA Automotive and Engineering Department said the lesson of the Raybestos Manhattan affair was that , while the people of Ireland supported the IDA , the same people ‘ were not prepared to see an industry right on their doorstep ’ . |
| 13 | In Bermuda I took a room at the Belmont Manor Hotel in Warwick county and was interested to see the notice informing guests that gentlemen were not permitted in the dining-room for dinner without a jacket and tie . |
| 14 | I had been told Chinchero was a traditional Andean market and I was interested to see the campesino culture at its most effective . |
| 15 | Like Medicine Man , this sees an action director ( John Rocky Avildsen ) throwing his populist sensibility behind a Good Cause and producing a piece of liberal kitsch . |
| 16 | say they not in their expertise , so I mean , it 's just an example of I mean , the old see a tourist shop and then I |
| 17 | China is angry over Hong Kong people 's support for the democracy movement and some see the border dispute as an attempt by Peking to press the government to take action against the Hong Kong Alliance , a political group that has provided financial support to China 's democracy movement . |
| 18 | Some see the ouija board as a ‘ machine ’ to facilitate this process . |
| 19 | Several misgivings later , I was relieved to see a car stop , and so made the acquaintance of Peter Mulhooley . |
| 20 | The home fans were relieved to see the rebound strike defender Kay and cannon over the crossbar . |
| 21 | Lucille felt friendless in an enemy country , but then was relieved to see the Dowager Countess of Mauberges who , like so many other Belgian aristocracy , thought of herself as French and wanted the world to know it . |
| 22 | Local traders would be sad to see the rally leave Wroughton — the event already brings in an estimated one million pounds each year . |
| 23 | When he arrived at Florey 's laboratory , Chain was delighted to see a Sohxlet apparatus in a cupboard , but caused consternation by saying ‘ I shall want six of those ’ . |
| 24 | A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil . |
| 25 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |
| 26 | IT is easy to see the word fan as a simple shortening of fanatic , but the origin actually lies in the old name for the followers of any sport . |
| 27 | In the case of depression , it is easy to see the body shape which accompanies such a condition . |
| 28 | March , 1991 saw the support vessel ‘ Valiant Service ’ arrive in the port of Naples for mobilisation of specialist positioning equipment , project management and survey personnel as well as subcontractor , Eastport 's deep water sonar systems , remotely operated vehicle ( ROV ) and recovery equipment . |
| 29 | On 1 March 1989 , a group of British skiers were horrified to see a man set fire to himself on the ski-slopes outside Braşov . |
| 30 | On one Ultimate Challenge crossing of Scotland two girls ( new to the hills ) who were partnering me were horrified to see the spring casualty rate among deer . |