Example sentences of "[modal v] see [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hopsital for minor surgery . |
| 2 | Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hospital for minor surgery . |
| 3 | ‘ In late 1992 we think we might see some signs of improvement in the US or some European countries ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ In my lifetime , it 's unlikely that I 'll see that sort of system — the one which currently is being dismantled — back in place and in good health . |
| 5 | Today in many large organizations we 'll see three generations of desktop delivery mechanism , the old dumb terminal , the thirty se tw thirty two seventy dumb terminal for instance . |
| 6 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 7 | Apart from the tangled wreck of the main body of the car , Cardiff could see twisted chunks of metal lying in the roadway and in the pavement . |
| 8 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 9 | The barn was not full , but in some of the stalls on either side of a broad central aisle he could see heaped mountains of grain as his eyes became accustomed to the dark . |
| 10 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 11 | Laura was not tough , but possessed a strong character and would see this sort of action not as a sacrifice , but as an act of fulfilment , she was able to project herself through her husband . |
| 12 | Mr Hay , whose company made a small profit last year , added : ‘ For my own business I think I can see faint signs of recovery . |
| 13 | Even within a short distance we can see remarkable changes of thickness . |
| 14 | And you can see little beads of pus oozing out . |
| 15 | We can see this kind of order from the way Portia sticks to the command made by her father although he is dead . |
| 16 | With hindsight , we can see this loss of faith as one of the formative facts of his life : much of his subsequent thinking is precisely a ‘ search ’ for something to fill the void or , more characteristically , for a way of honestly confronting the void . |