Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |
| 3 | In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language , he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying : ‘ Nobody could take that as a criticism — this is an investor group . |
| 4 | Stocky , adaptable and full of vim , Mark has all the hallmarks of the bona fide allrounder , wielding a stubborn blade in addition to the accurate seam-up that has already seen more than one class act tumble before a shrewdly concealed slower ball . |
| 5 | They are part of a three-year programme that has already seen the opening of six new nurseries with a further eight expected to open later this year . |
| 6 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 7 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 8 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 9 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 10 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 11 | There are others that do not see it as structural . |
| 12 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 13 | This new position was achieved only as a result of continuous warfare ; there was hardly a year in the third century that did not see the Roman army engaged in some campaign . |
| 14 | for those of you that did not see the match the situation looked kind of like this : |
| 15 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 16 | About women like me — and you who walk like ghosts through a world that tries not to see us . |
| 17 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 18 | There , lying among trilobites , brachiopods and bristle worms , in the mud of the seas of 550 million years ago that had yet to see a finned or backboned swimmer , has been found the impression of a creature very similar indeed to the living lancelet . |
| 19 | Frontline bidders were Quelle and Kingfisher — which had the edge of being a domestic buyer in a market that had already seen Otto Versand of Germany buy Grattan and the French Redoute group carry off Empire Stores . |
| 20 | It was a good start to a day that had already seen the Liberal Democrats improve by two points in the latest opinion polls . |
| 21 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 22 | They had been lured miles into the hills by reports of a distant loch , full of superb fish that had n't seen artificial fly or an angler for years . |
| 23 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 24 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 25 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 26 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 27 | Many of the young couples that come here to see about their weddings , when asked , admit that their relationship had a pretty unspectacular beginning . |
| 28 | Her that come round to see you and Steve ? |
| 29 | What survival value can there be in an eye that does n't see ? |
| 30 | Developers that have yet to see Intel Corp 's P5 microprocessor are in for a shock , because judging by intelligence gleaned by Computer Reseller News in Asia , the new part bears little resemblance to the commodity microprocessors that power tens of millions of personal computers . |