Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was terribly interesting to see other painters in action — painters whose work we 're familiar with . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be extremely sad to see this railway go to the wall , after so many volunteers have put in so much time and money to keep steam travel alive in Hampshire . ’ |
| 3 | Yvonne Simpson , the BDA 's honorary secretary , said : ‘ We are extremely pleased to see this problem has been resolved . |
| 4 | Council is especially anxious to see inventive applications of a ‘ pump priming ’ nature and is prepared to consider applications from those working in chemical education as well as chemical research . |
| 5 | It is thus possible to see local politics in these years as having , in some degree , a life of its own ’ ( 1985a , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 6 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 7 | Popes were no longer content to see political leadership taken from them . |
| 8 | Allen was already unable to see adopted children Moses , 14 , and Dylan , seven . |
| 9 | It is more usual to see individual carp , or just one or two together . |
| 10 | However , it is certainly still possible to see many sets of standard terms which contain clauses which could well be either banned or subject to the reasonableness test under the Act . |
| 11 | The ex-CID officer was more reticent about the perks of the job , more willing to see those offers as the practice in other forces . |
| 12 | Technically , it is always interesting to see these museum exhibits as natural gold varies slightly in shape and colour from location to location . |
| 13 | Even if the site had planning permission however , it is still impossible to see any sense in Telecom 's purchase . |
| 14 | In prose fiction , a more dialogic genre , various shifts of deictic centre occur ( that is , from character to character ) and we are more likely to see deictic terms verified intra-textually — for example , pronominal reference given a full cataphoric form . |
| 15 | Perhaps , in contrast , migrants are people who are willing to consider a wider range of course options because they are more likely to see broader gains , such as personal development , from participation . |
| 16 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |
| 17 | To paraphrase Oswald , ‘ It is more important to see 30 patients who might have breast cancer than five who do ( but it is useful and likely that you will see them too ) . ’ |
| 18 | The Highland AIDS liaison officer , Brian Devlin , a former practising Roman Catholic priest , said that while the churches were usually happy to see clean needles and syringes made available to drug addicts , the question of sex and sexuality was a frequent sticking point in their attitude towards AIDS prevention . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm always pleased to see old friends , Doreen . ’ |
| 20 | Longer exposure will produce both this effect and the associative version , making it much more difficult to see any decline in latent inhibition at the longer intervals . |
| 21 | Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result . |
| 22 | Unhappily , it is far more common to see great circles of chairs facing a TV set , each person isolated in a little world of their own . |
| 23 | Ever keen to see fair play , we are happy to oblige the handsomely-coiffed Cumbrian arts supremo . |
| 24 | The Oldham manager added : ‘ It is always nice to see old friends , but there will be no divided loyalties — we need the three points . ’ |
| 25 | We were also glad to see 82-year-old Wally ‘ Left Hand Down ’ Perkins who has selflessly devoted the past 33 years to the unpaid unofficial work of guiding people reversing into the bays in a car park in Ipswich . |
| 26 | Some of the first Americans to urge a tougher anti-Soviet stance were also quick to see closer relations with Britain as an obvious corollary . |
| 27 | ‘ Look at the intensity of the preparations for major matches , ’ he says , ‘ The expenses could not be met without sponsorship but it is also good to see this kind of money being used right down the line . |
| 28 | And I 'm also pleased to see most seed companies acknowledging that they are revivals ; in the past they have often tried to pretend that these reintroductions were stunning new breakthroughs . |
| 29 | We are also anxious to see marine nature conservation strengthened . |
| 30 | It is also disappointing to see that home shopping , in the shape of Grattan , has failed to recover from the travails of last year 's postal strike and turned in a fall in profits from £14.3m to £8.6m . |