Example sentences of "[adj] see [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 2 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 3 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 4 | It is therefore possible to see movements in interest rates in the money markets as a whole in advance of changes led by the Bank of England . |
| 5 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 7 | Fearing a drug smuggling gang at work , we were relieved to see cases of Mars bars being offloaded — by order of Dom Mintoff . |
| 8 | Betty was so relieved to see Lydia in spirits again that she did n't care at all that it was Beuno who had wrought the transformation . |
| 9 | I am delighted to see people like Campling dealing with this subject with such caring . |
| 10 | Dr Granville wrote : ‘ July is much too early to see Harrogate to advantage . |
| 11 | At mirrors , quick to see spots on others . |
| 12 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 13 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 14 | The FR.4 was too late to see service in World War Two , and of the 160 built , 120 were delivered to the FAA and forty to the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service ( RNNAS ) . |
| 15 | The biggest single reason for refusal of certification being recommended is that the subject assessor is unable to see evidence of student performance . |
| 16 | We were happy to see bushes of buck thorn , which is the food plant of the yellow brimstone butterfly , left to flourish . |
| 17 | To a certain extent , the final draft betrays the fact that it was the product of compromise between those countries with highly developed regulatory control of mergers ( particularly the United Kingdom and West Germany ) which were reluctant to see control of mergers transferred to Brussels , and those countries with no or less effective control , which were keen for the Commission to take on that role . |
| 18 | Go on then you 'll be able to see mummy from work . |
| 19 | Over and above the residual discomfort of managers used to being able to see bodies in seats around the office and to address them face-to-face , the teleworkers themselves can feel similarly cut off . |
| 20 | I really find it difficult to see benefits in L M S. |
| 21 | I 'm annoyed to see Head of Department for Art offered on Scale 2 nowadays , within Arts Faculties . ’ |
| 22 | In Birmingham it was common to see women with hands mutilated from mishaps in the metal workshops . |
| 23 | As George Ewart Evans documents in his book Where Beards Wag All , it was also common to see groups of workers strolling around the parish on Sunday mornings examining each other 's work , with much chafing and leg-pulling about their respective capabilities en route . |
| 24 | Service controller Joanne Edwards is also keen to see life on board , as are the other sixteen volunteer technicians . |
| 25 | Consequently , it can be misleading to see circulars as evidence of central departments attempting to regulate local authorities . |
| 26 | For further advice on how to be influential see Persuasiveness on page 128 . |
| 27 | Carson was surprised to see tears of anger and frustration glistening in the corners of Reynolds 's eyes . |
| 28 | When she returned to the kitchen , Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar 's eyes . |
| 29 | I should n't be in the least surprised to see daffodils in September here . |