Example sentences of "be [adj] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks . |
| 2 | ‘ But I am interested to see where your cunning takes you , and you must do anything you think necessary to stop the horror that has begun . |
| 3 | The last time the Bill was debated in the House I assured the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) — whom I am delighted to see here — that a revised environmental statement on the project proposals would be available before the Bill was debated again . |
| 4 | We know that you are sad to see so many disputes between different parts of your family and we cry to you for unity and harmony between brothers and sisters . |
| 5 | You notice immediately that it is different from other parts of the country , because the roads are very narrow and windy and the hedges well built and in most cases so tall they are impossible to see over . |
| 6 | It could be an insurance plan so described to divert attention from the front-end and other charges which will absorb much , maybe all , of the first year 's ‘ savings , ’ and it could be five years or more , on any reasonable projection of performance , before you are likely to see even your original money back . |
| 7 | The article goes on to quote from Michael Polaryi who , I am sure , would have been horrified to see how intent these researchers are on isolating emotion as something to be ‘ switched on ’ and ‘ portrayed ’ . |
| 8 | even I am glad to see when come back |
| 9 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 10 | I am unable to see why equitable assignments , with this fall-back declaration of trust , ought to be treated in any way differently for compensation purposes than if in place of assignments there had been simple declarations of trust . |
| 11 | Lawrence J stated at p601 , " I am unable to see how the word " indirectly " " can be limited so as to exclude the settlements which are made through the inter-position of a company . " |
| 12 | Very many investigations can follow this kind of pattern and you can always encourage pupils to take this approach if they are stuck or you are unable to see where else they might go . |
| 13 | But on Venus , because of its much more massive atmosphere the bending is more marked and we are able to see well beyond the horizon , particularly because the lower atmosphere of Venus is usually very clear . |
| 14 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 15 | Perhaps he suggests that , although bats ' eyes are apparently weak , nevertheless , in some way that is not understood , they are able to see efficiently at night by use of their eyes . |
| 16 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 17 | Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows . |
| 18 | But damn it to hell , I 've never been able to see clearly or think straight where you 're concerned — certainly not since you came to Taipei , and maybe not even six years ago either . |
| 19 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 20 | By focusing on the day to day practicalities of business life in collaboration with businessmen , it will be possible to see how far what are usually thought of as mutually exclusive approaches are , in fact , reconcilable . |
| 21 | Perhaps this was better , to be free to see where they were going to take her , to follow them , to keep out of their hands and then perhaps an opportunity would come to do something . |
| 22 | ‘ It will also be interesting to see where he gets the time from too , because there 's his solo album release , our anthology , and then in September Mick , Stevie ( Nicks ) , Chris , myself and Billy start a new Fleetwood Mac album , which marks the end of Christine 's ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 23 | It will be interesting to see where the matches against Auckland involving Scottish Exiles and a District Select ( venues are not listed in the draft fixture list ) will be staged . |
| 24 | In contrast , it will be interesting to see how far Deutsche Bank succeeds with its acquisition of Morgan Grenfell in 1989 , having chosen not to react immediately to the Big Bang by acquiring a merchant banking subsidiary in London in 1986 . |
| 25 | It will be interesting to see how that affects the players of the First Division clubs East Grinstead , Havant and Hounslow . |
| 26 | It will be interesting to see how that affects the players of the First Division clubs East Grinstead , Havant and Hounslow . |
| 27 | Poole and Johnson v Edwards and Coker should be an immense contest at lock and it will be interesting to see how Richards copes with the challenge of so many England colleagues opposite . |
| 28 | It will be interesting to see how President Bush deals with the continuing hostage/Contra problem , particularly as he was once head of the CIA . |
| 29 | It will also be interesting to see how the ‘ scale fee ’ condition will operate if the Institute ceases to publish scale fees , as is quite likely to happen within the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | It would be interesting to see how many big bream could be taken from Grafham if bait and bottom fishing were allowed . |