Example sentences of "see [Wh adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | André and I are both fluent , but I 've seen how disadvantaged an outsider can be without any knowledge of the language . ’ |
2 | It was a far cry from the city of Teheran which Shamlou had last seen when paying a visit to his mother before going to the Sabbah camp . |
3 | In that way , people can see how effective the organisation is against other providers or against a regional or national average . |
4 | A school cleaner married to a doctor is in Social Class I and a school cleaner married to a labourer is in Social Class V. A social classification system is one of the ways in which we can see how successful a society is in educating and sustaining the healthy life of its members . |
5 | Did you see how nice the man was when he started to talk to Jason oh I 'll go and help you how friendly he was he was conning him , he was tricking . |
6 | Dry-lay a row of tiles from this point out to each wall so you can see how wide the cut border pieces will be , and adjust your starting point if necessary , to avoid having a very narrow border strip which will be difficult to cut . |
7 | As with model answers to mathematical problems , one can then see how close the agent came to finding the right alternative by the right route . |
8 | So , in the meantime , I 'll just see how dreadful a time I can have , so that everyone feels sorry for me and I can avoid taking responsibility for my life ! ’ |
9 | We can at least now see how important a policy it might have been , how great a shift in the tides of history that it was attempting . |
10 | You can see how high the water is with all all that |
11 | Now everyone can see how unique a Schnauzer I am . |
12 | I laughed gaily so the Morrisons would see how jolly the sofa could be . |
13 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
14 | ‘ Always , ’ Damian replied in that deep , cool voice , and in that moment Rachel saw how close the bond between the two men was , how much Charles relied on Damian , and how deeply aware of that reliance Damian was . |
15 | She would be even more disillusioned when she saw how limited the space actually was . |
16 | Research is being conducted at King 's College , London to see how accurate the ulstrasound is at picking up excess fluid in the neck region , in conjunction with the triple test there may be a 95 pc accurate diagnosis . |
17 | It is worth going through the list to see how great the disjunction is . |
18 | Owen was surprised to see how extensive the list was . |
19 | During a tournament like that of the red deer for instance , the opponents can probably size each other up , to see how strong the other is . |
20 | So you would use the carrying of weight on the gallops in training to see how fit a horse is ? |
21 | Looking at 1993 , it is easy to see how uninspired a lot of the publishing programmes are . |
22 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
23 | But first we stand in line to use the bathroom : people popping their heads out of doorways to see how big the queue is , me letting Rachel in by herself . |
24 | Fourth Estate , £14.99 THE first fascination of studying history comes from seeing how similar the past is to the present : politics has always been politics , religion has always been religion , and so on . |
25 | If we look at the range of statements about English teaching in books written before our Report we see how broad the subject is . |
26 | ‘ You see how healthy the boy is , Susan ? ’ asked old Ben . |
27 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |