Example sentences of "[vb pp] to see [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Security videos throughout the city centre are being checked to see if the bombers have been trapped on tape .
2 Where claims involve losses in these areas during the winter period stated , they should be carefully checked to see if the clause has been complied with .
3 The proposal form should be checked to see if the Policyholder disclosed the illness/injury or if the complaint first occurred after inception of the policy , did the Policyholder disclose this at the appropriate renewal date .
4 First the existing geometric domain relationships will be checked to see if the relationships already exist and , if not , whether their acceptance will violate any other existing relationships .
5 Reading on in the book of Acts , I was fascinated to see that the experience of Cornelius and his household in Acts 10 was different .
6 All the circumstances must be examined to see if the parties intended to leave over the entire agreement or whether they intended to make a binding contract , albeit one with some details still outstanding .
7 They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see .
8 More recently we have come to see that the concept of science or arts is a social construction ; as Michael Young has argued :
9 For both judges and ordinary people will have come to see that the area that should be dominated by predictability is very large , and citizens will make their plans assuming that judges take that view and so will not often reverse settled legal practice .
10 However , the terms implied by sections 12–15 are designed to see that the buyer receives certain basic benefits from the transaction .
11 But other leases contain wording which says that the arbitrator must be " an independent surveyor " : so the wording of each clause will have to be considered to see whether the word " independent " carries any particular message about the status of the referee .
12 Regular stock checks should be made to see that the balance of stock in the bin agrees with both the balance on the bin card and the balance on the stock record card .
13 And this implies that efforts should be made to see that the risks are brought to as low a level as reasonably practicable ’ .
14 Registration at HM Land Registry is required to be made in Form 99 ( The Land Registration ( Matrimonial Homes ) Rules 1990 SI No 1360 ) ( no fee required ) ; an official search of the index map at HM Land Registry ( Form 96 ) will need to be made to see if the land is registered unless the position is known without doubt .
15 In cases of dispute the two halves would be matched to see if the notches corresponded .
16 Intestinal transit times were measured to see whether the effect of sulphate upon methanogenesis might be the result of faster bowel transit , because the laxative properties of sodium sulphate are recognised .
17 I 've given my word that , if I do decide to invest in this project , all care will be exercised to see that the area is n't spoiled in any way . ’
18 Perhaps Sir Fred Hoyle , as an authority on epidemiology , might be invited to see whether the origin of the epidemic may not lie close to the laboratories of the National Institutes of Health .
19 When this round of appointments was made the situation would be reviewed to see if the inspectorate needed further strengthening .
20 On August 13th 1803 it was ordered that ‘ a hole be dug at a proper distance from the house and that the matron be directed to see that the servants do empty all the pails from the house into the said hole until the privies etc. , shall be built out of doors ’ .
21 A second primary and secondary school will be studied to see whether the findings from the case study schools apply to schools elsewhere .
22 We are determined to see that the renegotiation of the Common Fisheries Policy protects the interests of UK fishermen and retains our share of the Community 's fishing opportunities .
23 The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one .
24 There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid .
25 However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language .
26 In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned .
27 A longitudinal health study of this population is required to see if the incidence of other childhood cancers is increased .
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