Example sentences of "see a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year will see a visible improvement in the quality of life of people in the district . |
| 2 | If the surface is calm , and you are watching carefully , preferably with binoculars , you will see a slight vortex at the surface due to the water displacement beneath . |
| 3 | By prodding his memory he placed Anna Beckett as the strange , dark little girl who was fostered with Mrs Wooldridge , his laundry woman , and with his new knowledge he thought he could see a slight resemblance to Sarah , though it would never be remarked upon . |
| 4 | ‘ I can see a slight likeness . |
| 5 | Suddenly there was a brightness like sunlight below them , and Little Billy could see a vast lake of water , gloriously blue , and on the surface of the lake thousands of swans were swimming slowly about . |
| 6 | The hills levelled out as they reached the crests , and they could see a vast , rolling country expanding blindingly far northwards ; a sea of white frozen breakers tumbling into an unknown shore under a clear sky . |
| 7 | But underneath her smart-alec answer she could see a mental picture of the wolf . |
| 8 | And maybe we 'll see a new look , too . |
| 9 | She believes we will see a new politics emerge , in which pleasure and individual responsibility will no longer be subjugated to the ‘ correct , collective line ’ ; though the institutional landscape is changing , a radical , independent sector will continue to exist . |
| 10 | One of her closest aides revealed last night : ‘ You will see a new Princess Royal in 1993 . |
| 11 | Parker says unequivocally that the future of the mainframe lies with Open Edition MVS , but he says that we could see a new generation of mainframe-class systems based on multiple RISC processors , again based on a similar idea to the SP-1 and that this will be the natural place for AIX . |
| 12 | She envisages perhaps two or three beta versions , and then after that we will see a new OS/2 running as a personality on top of Workplace OS . |
| 13 | She envisages perhaps two or three beta versions , and then after that we will see a new OS/2 running as a personality on top of Workplace OS . |
| 14 | Postgraduate teaching in Aquaculture continues to thrive with targets being met relatively easily , while the highly popular MSc course in Environmental Management will see a new record intake this year and a new record waiting list . |
| 15 | Before we go , a reminder that you can see a new look Central Lobby after our late news this evening . |
| 16 | It will see a new way of working for most staff . |
| 17 | It will see a new way of working for most staff . |
| 18 | Both Saturday , September 19 and Sunday , September 20 will see a frequent train service operating between Swanage station , Herston Halt and Harman 's Cross station between 11 am and 5 pm — a round trip of six miles taking in the order of 50 minutes . |
| 19 | It 's called Qualitas , and you 'll see a blue logo in shop windows and on the furniture of the 700 firms who belong . |
| 20 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 21 | Watch the robin especially because it always flies low , and you might see a nervous young Minpin perched on the feathers having its first flying lesson . |
| 22 | Here again we can see a sharp distinction between the legislative acts of the European Com-munities on the one hand and conventional law on the other . |
| 23 | Supporting Labour 's blueprint for an integrated transport system , he said : ‘ Never again must we see a Prime Minister chasing coffins and attending funerals because of a lack of proper investment in transport . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't see a serious challenge to London as a financial centre as things stand currently , ’ Hugh Smith intones calmly . |
| 25 | But , in the mid '90s when Mercedes reviews its transmissions ( in service since 1979 ) , we might see a complete move across to five-speed automatics . |
| 26 | Will we see a complete about-turn in mid-season ? |
| 27 | Nevertheless , we have made a lot of progress in recent years , and as I shall describe , there are some grounds for cautious optimism that we may see a complete theory within the lifetime of some of those reading these pages . |
| 28 | J.F.S. : D' you , do you see a complete divorce between that kind of counselling and teaching ? … the academic bit … |
| 29 | I knew several wrinklies who took hours to find their glasses when it came to signing a cheque but who could see a net curtain twitch three streets away . |
| 30 | As I regained my composure I could see a wide grin on the Frenchman 's face . |