Example sentences of "[modal v] see [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must see about more help . ’ |
| 2 | So , perhaps the reason is the loss of a love object , and then of course if you found there was a in fact a loss of a love , love object , then you might to see in greater detail , how this whole thing came about . |
| 3 | Julie Walters as Monica is all warmth and tolerance in the face of what many might see as absolute abnormality . |
| 4 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 5 | She looked longingly at the keg , then with a casual twitch of her head added : ‘ I 'll see to that brandy while I 'm waiting , ’ and slipped out to the passage and the cellar door . |
| 6 | The 250cc British Grand Prix in Sundays sunshine provided some of the most exciting action you 'll see for some time . |
| 7 | We 've had erm , he may see at some stage , he might just see my son Christopher |
| 8 | We may see in this encouragement of scholars not only an attempt to improve the status of the realm , but a genuine curiosity for learning on the part of Charles himself . |
| 9 | The ground floor windows were low enough to look in and he could see into the-little office , which was empty . |
| 10 | Concentrated in the area of Hatu-Lia and Cailaco , the patrols could see from these hill positions across the wide Nanura Plains , covered in 6 feet to 8 feet ( 2–3m ) high buffalo grass , to the Dutch border . |
| 11 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 12 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 13 | We shall see below that consent may constitute the difference between the sexual expression of shared love between two people and the serious offence of rape . |
| 14 | By the time transformational rules ( if they are really operating — which is theoretically contentious , as we shall see in due course ) enter the picture , we can expect even more linguistic material to be available for reshaping , re-ordering and relocating . |
| 15 | It is true that the paper plans , as set out in the award made by the commissioners , did not produce all the physical changes at once , as we shall see in due course ; but the transformation of the landscape was , all the same , remarkably swift . |
| 16 | Such a view reminds us — as we shall see in greater detail in the next chapter — that there is an odd paradox where the ‘ moral ’ qualities of God are concerned . |
| 17 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 18 | As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act . |
| 19 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 20 | As we shall see in subsequent case studies , this problem is likely to reappear . |
| 21 | ‘ Hugo will see to that sort of thing , ’ Georgina said . |
| 22 | Three weeks ago McLaren announced that its ultimate supercar , the F1 , which we will see at this show next year , will also be powered by a BMW V12 — a six-litre Motorsports unit . |
| 23 | But rule-making by bodies other than Parliament may be subject to judicial review on a number of grounds , as we will see in due course . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the courts have recognized the value of informal rules in a variety of contexts , and it is now quite clear that such rules may be subject to judicial review on a number of grounds ( as we will see in due course ) . |
| 25 | Well then er there is the documentation which is er entitled part B and part B which is also er contained in three files one , two and three , comprises what are essentially all the relevant documentary er evidence , which is arranged chronologically and events run , as your Lordship will see in due course , from approximately nineteen , mid nineteen eighty five through to the end of nineteen eighty six , beginning of nineteen eighty seven in the . |
| 26 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 27 | The town of Isafjördur is on the far side of the fjord , a long way from the town , and reached by a bus ride past the first fish-drying frame you will see in this part of the island . |
| 28 | However , as we will see in this chapter , it is possible to carry out systematic studies of production ; and the results of such studies have an essential contribution to make to our understanding of language processing . |
| 29 | As you will see from this description of the account executive role in your account group , the agency has to try to allow for different levels of contact with your own organization . |
| 30 | In 1893 while recovering from a bout of influenza he wrote You will see from this heading that I am not dead yet , nor likely to be . |