Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] see [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I picked it up , I could see only one word — dead … |
| 2 | There are spacious arcades and galleries on all sides of the square , and on these I could see nobly sculpted medallions of famous Spaniards . |
| 3 | I could see about 45 eggs in all . |
| 4 | Things that they see as blanket oppression , I would see as possible sources of strength , such as arranged marriages . |
| 5 | I can see only one way in which this question can be approached quantitatively . |
| 6 | I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … , " . |
| 7 | However it seems that the Flat continues endlessly and the main race is the £10,000 Tolka Handicap which should see yet another onslaught from the highly successful Dermot Weld stable . |
| 8 | So is indecisiveness an excess of imagination which can see so many possibilities in each alternative that none of them can be rejected ? |
| 9 | Indeed , with a very small agency , you may see only one person — who may be both account executive and copywriter , and obtain most other necessary services from outside organizations . |
| 10 | You might see brightly coloured clothes or long hair but at least you do n't see the same shoes , the same jeans or the same jackets by the same designer . |
| 11 | You 'll see equally impressive results with a pair of Pentax binoculars . |
| 12 | These are good , but you 'll see even better ones in the Piazza . ’ |
| 13 | The moon had come out again — even the moon did as he wanted , she thought hopelessly — and across the water she could see only high walls and shuttered windows . |
| 14 | ‘ If you could see just one show at the ( Edinburgh ) Festival , it would have to be this one ’ . |
| 15 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 16 | The Commission has been instructed that it does not have to follow a uniform pattern throughout the country and therefore we may see still greater diversity over time as , in one shire , we see the county council survive and in another the district councils . |
| 17 | If certain others were in tune with his message of peace , we should see much quicker progress in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | As we untied her , we could see long red bruises across her neck . |
| 19 | According to Mr Ashworth ‘ it 's quite possible that we shall see both higher lamb prices this year and an increase in the Sheep Annual Premium . ’ |
| 20 | As we shall see later these sources often receive short shrift in many of the papers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | We will see further such groups in later chapters , particularly in Chapter 6 when we discuss transput and interrupt handling . |
| 24 | We can see here that citizenship goes far beyond learning about Marshall 's ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ and extends into cultivating the practice of citizenship , the promotion of a sense of community , social cohesion , and ‘ civic virtue . |
| 25 | When the dimension of gender is added , we can see even greater disadvantage and inequality for females . |
| 26 | I hope that other hon. Members on green Benches — we can see mostly green Benches today — will join me in trying to find out how we can avoid the consultant-promoter corrupt relationship . |
| 27 | Without moving our heads , we can see about 208 degrees around us , while a cat 's field of view is only about 187 degrees . |
| 28 | Burun looked , but he could see only unprepared men who had not even drawn their bows because they were so confident of success . |