Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight Joyce Carey and Graham Payne are in to see the show . |
| 2 | We 're already seeing a trend towards pay-for-use , rather than subscription . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're not to see the swan until the performance so that you will react to if spontaneously . |
| 4 | Now we 're off to see a man about his dogs . |
| 5 | Hymie and Louis would borrow two shillings from Old Bill , and then would say — ‘ We 're off to see a customer in Hamilton ( 12 miles away ) so we will not be back before 5 o'clock . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 're off to see the wizard on a magical mystery tour ! ’ the Doctor announced , and while Benny was trying to untangle the references from mid-twentieth-century popular culture , he strode out of the room . |
| 7 | We 're off to see the wizard ! |
| 8 | We 're off to see the lizard |
| 9 | And er th there will be an increase the ra accident rates that are orthopaedic related er inside the remainder of the pits because we 're now seeing the drift towards er longer working hours , more time at the coal face . |
| 10 | Books Etc was , he said , ‘ perturbed by the fact that we are still seeing a galaxy of British paperbacks at the airside of Heathrow terminals presented with a flourish as ‘ unavailable elsewhere in the UK ’ ’ . |
| 11 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 12 | We are also seeing the idea that you can mix geriatric , psychogeriatric and young chronic sick people in the one unit and successfully cater for the needs of all 3 groups . |
| 13 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 14 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 15 | I think that the right decisions were taken in recent years on the deployment of cruise and other nuclear matters , and we are now seeing the benefit of that . |
| 16 | We are now seeing the economy turn round . |
| 17 | We are now seeing the economy turn round . |
| 18 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 19 | I 'm currently seeing a psychotherapist , but this is n't helping me . |
| 20 | Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance . |
| 21 | It is possible to question the force of such evidence — perhaps school has no independent effect and we are simply seeing a side-effect of class-biased recruitment . |
| 22 | Sergeant Nafi gives me a knowing look and I realise we are about to see a repeat performance of the Greek tragedy play . |
| 23 | As for freephone lines for shops , he adds : ‘ We are actually seeing a return to the High Street at the moment . |