Example sentences of "we see today " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 2 | The level of organization achieved by the most advanced molluscs , for example the octopus , is the most intricate and sophisticated of any invertebrate : one can not over-estimate the importance of the Mollusca in shaping the patterns of marine communities we see today . |
| 3 | You 'll see when we see today 's film run that this response wo n't have been nearly as rapid as the one he 'll show when Miss Quinn takes him . ’ |
| 4 | The stones that we see today are therefore the remains of the supports that once held the nets in position . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the type of membership , the formation of the National Deaf Club was an important development for deaf people , for through it there grew the camaraderie that we see today in the deaf community — a sense of belonging to a body that was quite acceptable in social terms . |
| 6 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 7 | But only half a century later the Priory itself was secularised by Henry VIII and the land incorporated into the gardens and park of the house we see today . |
| 8 | Yet most of the buildings we see today date from the 12th century or later — Henry II 's great medieval fortress , strengthened in the 13th century , was remodelled by Georgian and Victorian engineers to keep it up to date . |
| 9 | The funfair we see today was only a small part of the original fairs where the main business was trading . |
| 10 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 11 | This was not a wedding such as we see today . |
| 12 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |
| 13 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 14 | This growth in demand was accompanied by more and more technical developments from the original flickering wire to the high-intensity lighting we see today . |
| 15 | This must be the decade in which we raise the standard of all our public services , up to and beyond the best we see today . |
| 16 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is inevitable , but what we see today must not be taken as a true vision of the past . |
| 18 | Stamford failed entirely to solve the problem of its open fields ; but whereas Nottingham created its slums , Stamford fossilised into the beautiful seventeenth- and eighteenth-century town we see today , a museum piece from a pre-industrial England . |
| 19 | The polar habitats we see today are likely to be just as transitory as those that preceded them . |
| 20 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 21 | It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made . |
| 22 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 23 | Such sequences of vegetation change and human impact are typical of many areas and it would not be unreasonable to suggest that no area of the British Isles has been entirely free of human activities or their indirect consequences — the landscape we see today is as much an artifact of human creation as any historical site . |
| 24 | Much of what we see today dates from their time : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers , two round and two square ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the might circular donjon surrounded by its own moat , and on the east side a great hall and chapel . |
| 25 | But that recession also brought about the improvements in industrial relations which we see today . |