Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Pridmore could n't see the sense of more examinations and all this talking about a career . |
| 2 | Scott could n't see the name painted along one side of it but he 'd already been told it was called The Abbott . |
| 3 | Rain suggested Cobalt carried on well past the Jonquil so that anyone arriving at the boat would not see the car and guess they were there . |
| 4 | The March issue of Woodworker will also see the introduction of a new regular column inviting readers to come up with ideas for using offcuts . |
| 5 | The man who ladles the food into the steel bowl on the tray can not see the face of the man to whom he gives the food . |
| 6 | Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision . |
| 7 | But the sceptic ca n't see the way that Paul 's example is an answer , because the things which made Paul joyful are alien to the non-Christian way of life . |
| 8 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 9 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |
| 10 | That is governments may well see the need to take microeconomic measures to deal with problems created by changes in the performance of the macro and world economies . |
| 11 | The Computer Users Group should not see the collation of hardware requests from end users as their primary function . |
| 12 | That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed . |
| 13 | Then he would realize he was smiling again for Sir William 's benefit , and swing round in his chair so that Morris could n't see the smile . |
| 14 | People in Burma would then see the protection afforded by continuing membership in the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | ‘ The move will likely see the Governor-General [ the Queen 's representative ] replaced by a president . ’ |
| 16 | The next five years will also see the implementation of tests for seven , 11 and 14 year olds ; a shift towards ‘ on the job ’ teacher training ; and the transformation of some grant-maintained institutions into grammar schools . |
| 17 | No. 7 on your list may be from Russia : ‘ The bat can not see the sun , and so it does n't believe the sun exists . ’ |
| 18 | However , insects can not see the warning spots , and to them the spider 's disguise is deadly perfect . |
| 19 | Although the draftsman may never see the lease again once it has been executed , others will have to live with it and try to manage the property according to its terms . |
| 20 | The next decade may well see the introduction of more designer polymers and composites , such as adhesive liquid crystalline systems and biocompatible monomers with reduced polymerisation shrinkage . |
| 21 | At that distance Adam could n't see the scar that ran down Kaas ' cheek . |
| 22 | Visibility was so poor that Defries could hardly see the runway in front of her . |
| 23 | Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim . |
| 24 | Tragically , fans in the UK will not see the bone structures that make up Ministry 's US stage set . |
| 25 | Owners will usually see the value of their property increase and it is often a selling point in estate agents ’ particulars that a house stands in a conservation area . |
| 26 | They witness to a certainty that all the diversity of living beings are a part of a transcendent unifying spiritual whole which is by definition difficult to grasp in its totality ; individual dancers can not see the pattern of the whole dance — that is perceived only from outside . |
| 27 | Patients may not see the relevance of giving information about their social history when their problem is a physical one — and it may not be . |
| 28 | This would offer great possibilities for travel in space and time , but unfortunately it seems that these solutions may all be highly unstable ; the least disturbance , such as the presence of an astronaut , may change them so that the astronaut could not see the singularity until he hit it and and his time came to an end . |
| 29 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 30 | In the darkness Gabriel could only see the shape of a woman sitting on a horse . |