Example sentences of "we [vb mod] see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe . |
| 2 | Our spiritual eyes need to be opened , that we may see into the spiritual order , and become aware of the constant activities of God . |
| 3 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 4 | We may see in the modern confusion surrounding the Portland Vase a tendency , particularly marked in later works of the Claudian period ( AD 41–54 ) , to liken idealised figures to portraits . |
| 5 | JULIEN Temple , maker and some say perpetrator of Absolute Beginners , possibly the last ambitious British musical we 'll see on the screen , has taken things easier with Earth Girls Are Easy ( Prince Charles etc , PG ) . |
| 6 | We 'll see to the family . ’ |
| 7 | The antidote to this has to be the counter-attack , as I 'm sure we 'll see from the French . |
| 8 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 9 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 10 | I did notice that we could see through the one that brought us here , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 11 | From the window we could see to the right a barrel-organ with a small dog dressed as a clown , to the left a pile of rags heaped on the Métro ventilation grille . |
| 12 | Soon we could see Rona in detail and skirting Gealldruig Mhor , the outlying skerry to the south , we could see by the white-based cliffs that a heavy swell was running . |
| 13 | Most impressive of all to us children was the fact that the house had two staircases , the staircase we could see from the front door , and the back stairs , used by the servants . |
| 14 | I had to admit my first impression was not quite what I had expected : instead of bold cliffs and mountain peaks , all we could see from the heaving deck of the boat was a seemingly endless beach of black shingle fringed by white breakers . |
| 15 | You did n't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape . |
| 16 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 17 | The question was argued out in Tanzania , as we shall see from the case study . |
| 18 | As we shall see in the next chapter , arriving at a balance between these two is often what drama educationalists are seeking . |
| 19 | The more heightened the form of that communication , as we shall see in the illustration that follows , the nearer the participant is to reaching the performance mode within dramatic playing . |
| 20 | Indeed , as we shall see in the final chapter , one of the principal skills a drama teacher requires is the ability to recognise the potential and suitability of each mode for the particular topic and the particular group and to recognise that the incipient performance mode in dramatic playing and the incipient dramatic playing mode in performance provide the means for an imperceptible movement between the two . |
| 21 | We shall see in the next chapter how carrying comparisons with living animals too far can result in curious and inaccurate pictures of the past . |
| 22 | As we shall see in the Russian case , it was a common phenomenon , echoing Marx 's description of Lafargue 's internationalism as merely a mechanism for absorbing all in a model French nation . |
| 23 | The results were not to be entirely bad , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 24 | Put in another way , the same smoothing recipe applied to different time series will produce different resulting shapes for the smooth , which , as we shall see in the next chapter , is not the case when fitting straight lines . |
| 25 | In either case , the line thus calculated is only a first approximation , and will be tuned up , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 26 | Rather than misdirecting attacks , they repel them altogether , as we shall see in the next chapter . . |
| 27 | One of those misled was Trotsky himself , who completely misread the real import of what Bukharin had written , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 28 | Or — as we shall see in the next chapter — perhaps you have payoffs and hidden agendas which are keeping you stuck ? |
| 29 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 30 | It is the argument of Braverman and some other radicals ( though not of most of Braverman 's critics , as we shall see in the next chapter ) that within capitalism the inherently antagonistic relationship between capital and labour inevitably generates a ‘ low trust ’ relationship . |