Example sentences of "would see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I 'd see right through it . ’ |
| 2 | , well I mean , I did do what you want , Penny and I would come along but I think you 'd see better in , in a box . |
| 3 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 4 | Jaq had been blinded — had his eye-screen stolen by agents of Carnelian — so that he would see even less of the picture than before and would be the more likely to call in such a vigorous and essentially useless assault . |
| 5 | But there were other moments when her guard was down , and she would see again her office at Woodline Design and wonder who was sitting at her desk now . |
| 6 | A subject only able to see the single large letters at the top of the chart ( the 6/60 line ) would be able only to discriminate at 6m what the normally sighted person would see clearly at 60m . |
| 7 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 8 | She was still bent to the Dobermann when she discovered that she needed a moment to control a knot of emotion that came from the thought that she would see neither the dog nor its owner again . |
| 9 | Black -tailed god wit we would see later , at the mouth of the River Clyst . |
| 10 | ‘ Any woman would see immediately . ’ |
| 11 | Now Montgomery would see right through her with those eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |
| 13 | Without the villus a visitor would see very little in Wilpattu , though occasionally a day-hunting leopard will step out on the road , or a sloth bear stand 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) high as it reaches for the fruit , honey or tree termites on which these fierce-looking predators feed . |
| 14 | Under the kitchen floor they built a brick-lined store , so cleverly concealed that anyone lifting the floorboards in a random search would see only the earth beneath . |
| 15 | If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale , we would see almost endless rows of atoms , stretching to the horizon in straight lines — galleries of geometric repetition . |
| 16 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 17 | What one person would construe as simply permitting a sinner to dig his own pit , another would see as encouraging further sin . |
| 18 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 19 | They doubted if the public would respond to a call for a second general strike over what many would see as only the shooting of one man in a period of frequent shootings and violence . |
| 20 | Things that they see as blanket oppression , I would see as possible sources of strength , such as arranged marriages . |
| 21 | The other objection , which I personally would see as more formidable , lies in the complications of development in sexuality and relationships which must usually arise in the child partner . |
| 22 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |