Example sentences of "we see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why have n't we seen wanted posters up for this dangerous loony now he 's on the run ? ’ |
| 2 | Or shall we see black faces among a row of white swans ? |
| 3 | Shall we see commercial sailing vessels ply the seas again ? |
| 4 | Why do n't we see positive advertisements about social work ? |
| 5 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 6 | Butterflies abounded : we saw small copper , green hair streak , grizzled skipper , orange tip , painted lady , common blue , speckled wood , small heath , wall brown and red admiral . |
| 7 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 8 | ‘ I think we saw pure fantasy . ’ |
| 9 | There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans . |
| 10 | As we saw modern Marxists have reworked their theory to account for these changes while still maintaining the centrality of Marx 's original insights . |
| 11 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 12 | ‘ When we saw other people 's work , like the French Impressionists , it was a different world . |
| 13 | ‘ In the first few days , we saw tangible benefits from the association in the form of lower insurance costs , coupled with much improved coverage . |
| 14 | We saw common guillemot , Brünnich 's guillemot , razorbill , black guillemot and puffin : it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list ! |
| 15 | We saw numerous examples where people bought equipment . |
| 16 | Like others , we saw postprandial gall bladder filling rather than contraction at 45 minutes and four hours after injection . |
| 17 | We saw leading brewers thinking about segregating property from brewing , and we saw one major brewer thinking about introducing new styles of lease , which is the main burden of the hon. Gentleman 's criticisms . |
| 18 | Heading out to the start in Jimmy 's van , we saw tell-tale road markings ; it must be more than 10K ! |
| 19 | As we hopped we saw grey phalaropes , inquisitive little birds seemingly unbothered by our presence , happily showing themselves now that there was insufficient light to film them . |
| 20 | As a result we saw human nature at its best , with so many people rallying around those in need of help . ’ |
| 21 | We saw large numbers on the crossing and thousands of lesser and brown noddies and fairy terns were breeding in the trees near the shore . |
| 22 | We then made brief visits in turn to some greenhouses , to a school where we witnessed an English lesson , to a clinic where we saw barefoot doctors and Chinese herbal medicines , to an agricultural machinery factory , and finally to a couple of peasants ' homes . |
| 23 | We see lexical items of a high degree of generality which have functions which are difficult to differentiate from those of grammatical elements . |
| 24 | As the moon orbits the Earth , we see varying amounts of its illuminated face . |
| 25 | The idea that a child 's intelligence might depend solely on the intelligences of his or her parents seems commonsensical : all around us we see clever kids born of clever parents . |
| 26 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 27 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 28 | We see similar success elsewhere only as a product of similar crusading zeal , and that would have to emerge spontaneously , on the spot . |
| 29 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 30 | We see new needs , born of newer economic and social conditions , which call to be met . |