Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 2 | The CTO will often ask to see copies of relevant correspondence between the parties and the legal advisors subject to any privilege rights . |
| 3 | GEORGE Wimpey , Britain 's second-biggest house-builder , yesterday joined the growing chorus of businesses seeing signs of economic recovery , despite unveiling huge losses for 1992 . |
| 4 | In order to see context-dependence in conditioned suppression it will be necessary to devise a procedure in which the contribution of the inhibitory association will be negligible . |
| 5 | The preceding week had seen days of heavy downpour and we came prepared for floods . |
| 6 | He began our interview by mentioning that he had seen statistics about sexual abuse reported in a recent magazine article . |
| 7 | This may be the first piece of half-good news in three years for defence manufacturers who have seen orders for new equipment shrink even faster than national defence budgets ( chart 1 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 9 | The Commission also considered the obligations of the state to the citizen , a subject which as we have seen advocates of active citizenship have tended to neglect . |
| 10 | Now Kelly was planning to direct a film version of Hello , Dolly ! , whose associate producer , Roger Edens , had seen Crawford in Black Comedy and in the film The Jokers . |
| 11 | And she had said she wanted to see places of historical interest . |
| 12 | But although he could see areas of hewn stonework that seemed to close him in , and although he could certainly see barred windows through which light streamed , there were no gaolers , and there were no other prisoners . |
| 13 | When A sees B in grievous distress , his conscience always urges him to entreat C to help him . ’ |
| 14 | I can see applications for square-section PVC piping , for instance . |
| 15 | He sees Sweeney in broad daylight in a pub on Gerrard Street , ‘ I want you out here , Sweeney . ’ |
| 16 | At other windows she could see tables with folded paper napkins and nickel plated cruets . |
| 17 | He could see masses of blurred colour , not much more . |
| 18 | Joseph could see tufts of grizzled hair protruding from beneath the sweat-soaked turban wrapped around the head of his aged coolie and he did n't have the heart to order him to gallop . |
| 19 | If you go to Wembley on Saturday morning you will see women with wide Jari bordered saris with gold embroidery , with necklaces and bangles — all gold — and of course they do n't wear a coat because the full splendour of their clothes must be revealed — on their feet a pair of decorative Chappals — however cold it might be . |
| 20 | This vision of society contrasts with that of Marxism , which sees power in capitalist society as concentrated in the hands of the ( bourgeois ) ruling class , and society as primarily divided into two great opposing classes rather than a motley of interacting interest groups . |
| 21 | Indeed , fascism was to appeal to many who , on whatever grounds ( most of them rational ) , suffered from an inability to see problems of contemporary society except in an intensely alienated form . |
| 22 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 23 | But there is no substitute for a visit , and a request to see evidence of previous exam results . |
| 24 | Seeing red over green tax |
| 25 | Certainly the late swing towards the Tories suggests an unwillingness to see Kinnock as prime minister . |
| 26 | If a theory of normal language processing were proposed in which there were a single processing system responsible for dealing with spoken language — a system used both for perceiving and for producing speech — then one ought never to see patients with intact speech perception and impaired speech production , nor patients with the opposite disorder . |
| 27 | Some individuals saw opportunities for social reform in leisure provision . |
| 28 | Along the western coast , on the shores of island , rock and cliff he saw cushions of pink sea thrift on rocks where lichens of yellow and red and green made each ancient rock a beauty in itself . |
| 29 | By the first decade of the twentieth century the majority of medics saw return to enforced regulation of VD as out of the question . |
| 30 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |