Example sentences of "we [verb] see [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
| 2 | And what changes can we expect to see during the coming year ? |
| 3 | Well we 'd seen to the back of the garden anyway cos we could see the hedge going across like that at forty five degrees . |
| 4 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 5 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |
| 6 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 7 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 8 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 9 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 10 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 11 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 12 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 13 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 14 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 15 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 16 | If we can get some action on the ground to tackle rights of way issues , we 'll be able to deal with the kinds of conflicts we 've seen in the past decade . |
| 17 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 18 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 19 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 20 | Erm , sir , I want to address the point , if it 's the right time about the level of housing provision the Greater York area in particular , erm that we 've seen round the table here that we have special circumstances applying to York , and to its surrounding area . |
| 21 | These are but a few of the self-created problems we 've seen around the festivals . |
| 22 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 23 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 24 | Almost without exception , they were breathtakingly beautiful ; their every movement a languid dance , and their smiles open and confident — so different from the shy tittering behind shawls that we had seen amongst the Bugis girls . |
| 25 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 26 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 27 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 28 | We have seen above the image of the " girl putting on her hat " and walking out ( from a unionist ) ; or being an absentee because her " mother is ill constantly " ( from an employer seeking to prove how unreliable women were ) . |
| 29 | We have seen since the early 1980s appeals to the family , attacks on the ‘ moaning Minnies ’ and ‘ whingers ’ who can not make it , and counteractions to permissiveness . |
| 30 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |