Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | LIVERPOOL is looking wonderful in spring and I recommend a visit — not forgetting the Tate Gallery in its spectacular Albert Dock setting , where you can see four exhibitions : Stanley Spencer , American Expressionists , European abstracts and modern Korean art . |
| 2 | So the team flew out at the end of November for their Busman 's Holiday , where they 'll see tropical plants grown in hot springs . |
| 3 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 4 | As he had seen no change in her , so she could see little difference in him . |
| 5 | We already know that English , Latin and Russian are related languages , so we would see these data as revealing the common origin of these languages . |
| 6 | Let's just create a window , so we can see both files on the screen at the same time . |
| 7 | ‘ I have worked with immigrant communities and the police so they can see each other 's problems more clearly . ’ |
| 8 | 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) . |
| 9 | She surfaced beneath the canopy , dived again and powered forward until she could see clear water above . |
| 10 | If you can see puzzled faces , ask people whether you 've expressed your message clearly enough . |
| 11 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 12 | Here , you were lucky if you could see any surfaces to dust . |
| 13 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 14 | If we can see this wealth of ideas as stimulations to the imagination rather than as what we have hitherto understood as literal truth we may gain deeper insights into the true nature of our relationship with the living Earth . |
| 15 | ‘ Whatever would Daisy and Edwin Pettigrew say if they could see such behaviour ! ’ |
| 16 | The money markets are wiping out share values , there 'll be a flight of money if Labour gets in and professional people will leave too if they can see better prospects abroad . |
| 17 | I ask Steve if he can see any reasons behind the constant attrition of top mountaineers . |
| 18 | My family bring me problems to solve because I can see both sides of the argument |
| 19 | Africa proved to be a paradise where Mr Sandy could pursue his favourite hobby of birdwatching : ‘ It was a most enjoyable tour from the birdwatching point of view because you can see more species in one day in Africa than you can in a year in Scotland . ’ |
| 20 | One difficulty encountered in verifying the explanation proposed above is a pair of sentences with the to infinitive cited by van Ek ( 1966 : 151 ) as examples of " see denoting physical rather than mental perception " : ( 51 ) It ( viz. Mrs B. " s death ) might be soon , for I can see worthy Mrs Bonner to be breaking visibly . |
| 21 | Even though I can see both applications on the screen at the same time I am having problems copy typing the formulas . |
| 22 | ‘ As you can see Ace Barton gets his priorities in the proper order . |
| 23 | As you will see some money may be required as a deposit and for your fees . |
| 24 | This is acceptable in the textbook , and can even be made to work on audio , but it is more difficult when we can see real people in a real setting on video . |
| 25 | As we shall see strange things , involving complex arithmetical manipulations , can happen to it in the process of transfer . |
| 26 | As we shall see inter-group behaviour in modern times is explicable primarily in terms of the social identities people adopt in relation to cultural and economic stresses , and the place for a biological factor in the discussion is here a very small one ( p. 390 ) . |
| 27 | We focused on this in the previous chapter , and indeed as we shall see organisational analysis has increasingly taken serious notice of factors which lie outside the structure of formal authority . |
| 28 | As we shall see this method reveals a serious problem , one that a component-by-component analysis tends to conceal . |
| 29 | Division B's managers would probably reject this offer as they would see each unit costing that division £90 ( £50 + £40 ) but yielding only £80 ; Division B would make a loss of £10 a unit by selling at £80 . |
| 30 | December is unlikely to have been any better , though it will see one example of international cooperation as the US , USSR and UK combine to trim the happy , carefree money-spenders of the United Nations . |