Example sentences of "see just [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This was developed further during a deployment in the field to practise battle procedures and enable the battalion to see just how mobile Warrior is .
2 And a fat greasy lady fell to a dead position out of a flat storey while attempting to see just how one of the TV newsreaders did his hair at the back .
3 It is often surprising to see just how close the water conditions in your aquaria or ponds have come to problems .
4 Now to see just how effective a daggerboard is , let's look at these two boats beating .
5 But at least everyone will be able to see just how much water they are using , even to the extent of checking the meter just before turning on the sprinkler , and then switching off when the dial shows enough water has been sprayed to cover the lawn or vegetable patch .
6 ‘ How would you like it ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ if we made some very cautious experiments to see just how much you can move and push ? ’
7 ‘ No doubt it 'll please you to see just how much damage he 's done . ’
8 Bill Morris came to Rover 's Swindon plant to see just how much things had changed .
9 It was disturbing to see just how personal Baker was with her attacks on Linda et al .
10 In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there .
11 There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total .
12 These are very popular on the continent and a number of players take advantage of the opportunity to match themselves against the professional to see just how good their game is over 72 holes of stroke play .
13 To watch such animals biting their own bodies as a way of providing novel stimulation is to see just how inadequate even the most modern zoos are for this type of species .
14 I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves .
15 IT FRIGHTENED me to see just how addicted our youngsters have become to computer games after reading of the 15,000-strong crowd at the Future Entertainment Show at Earls Court .
16 " Go take a flying Jesus , " I said , " I 'm beginning to see just how sick you really are . "
17 To see just how important this is we 'll follow the course of one eruption from start to finish .
18 And on Wednesday the police decided to invite the press along to see just how bad the situation has become in many areas of the North East .
19 On Wednesday the police decided to invite the press along to see just how bad the situation has become in many areas of the North East .
20 One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp .
21 If anybody wishes to see just how pernicious that influence can be , they can look at the Likud government in Israel , which has had to impose repressive legislation at the behest of religious extremists who hold the balance of power .
22 LEG 'S TALK ABOUT THIS : Fergie tries the inch-pinch by grabbing a handful of flesh on her leg to see just how wobbly it is — and pulls a face as she discovers the weighty truth
23 I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment .
24 And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was .
25 Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings .
26 However , this is only a recommendation and it remains to be seen just how much notice the courts will take or whether legislation will follow .
27 It remains to be seen just how much public money has had to be promised for the Heathrow to central London fast rail link to break the deadlock between airports operator BAA and British Rail .
28 I 've seen just how important Victoria Sanchez is to him , Rosie .
29 But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop .
30 Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was .
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