Example sentences of "see [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 2 | Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda . |
| 3 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |
| 4 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |
| 5 | I got a bloke to see about some business . ’ |
| 6 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 7 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 8 | The minister is then faced with the task of keeking to see during that prayer whether there are enough potential listeners to justify proceedings with his prepared material . |
| 9 | If it gets into your eyes , you may be unable to see for several hours . |
| 10 | Anyway seeing about that Steve . |
| 11 | Let Pool enter a few other minds , allow him to see through other eyes . ’ |
| 12 | Out goes the stereotype of the egghead with staring eyes trying to see through bottle-end glasses . |
| 13 | His ability to see through human failings , his capacity to analyse other people 's annoyingness , his rich sense of comedy and satire , had as yet only found their outlet in letters to Greeves , and to a lesser extent in such collections as P'dayta-Pie . |
| 14 | We have to see through this framework of thought for what it is : nothing short of academic ideology . |
| 15 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 16 | Control Data Corp , Memorex Corp , Storage Technology Corp , and those thrusting newcomers Seagate Technology Inc and Tandon Corp , which had seen off such old-timers as Shugart Corp and Pertec Computer Corp . |
| 17 | Another persuasive defence of economic reforms yesterday by Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , may have been enough to have seen off remaining threats . |
| 18 | The world has seen off ten mammals in the last ten years including the Falkland Island wolf , the Syrian wild ass and the crescent nail-tail wallaby . |
| 19 | The HAPCs are thought to be the manometric equivalent of the mass movements seen during radiological studies although not all HAPCs are associated with mass movements . |
| 20 | However , it is possible that the fluid seen during that visitation once saturated the body but had leaked from the cadaver during the intervening 250 years and thence from the coffin , owing to seasonal fluctuations in the humidity within the vault . |
| 21 | He added that a ban , like those seen during dry spells in recent years , would not be ruled out if the situation became extreme . |
| 22 | Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity . |
| 23 | Never before at all the meetings that I have attended have I seen such enormous attendances as I have seen during this campaign and that is illustrated by this packed audience tonight . ’ |
| 24 | The percentage of time that such a pattern was seen during common cavity episodes was recorded . |
| 25 | Both these , of course , also have underneath the pattern of the blueprint detective story and all that we have seen about that sort of book applies to the backgrounder , though perhaps with less rigour . |
| 26 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 27 | Both the 1965 ‘ plan ’ and devaluation can be seen as technocratic measures , equally inadequate to abolish the competitive weakness of the UK economy — a weakness which is inscribed in its industrial structure , and the slow growth of productivity which is linked to the development of social relations within enterprises as well as the shortfall of investment . |
| 28 | Other charity administrators say that Wolfson 's policy could help to legitimize the campaigns of anti-vivisectionists and could be seen as implicit criticism of the efforts of laboratory researchers . |
| 29 | There have been some dramatic prosecutions of commercial fraud , or what may be seen as criminal negligence . |
| 30 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |