Example sentences of "see [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pointed to the existence of the unicorn but now she was not sure whether it was a friend or an enemy , a beast with magical properties that only women could see or a creature to be feared and avoided . |
| 2 | If we now look at the curve which shows the freon ratios in surface water and look for a ratio of two , and lining this up with the nought degree curve because we 're working with Antarctic water which of course is very cold , we can see that a ratio of two corresponds to the year nineteen fifty nine . |
| 3 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 4 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 5 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |
| 6 | Look round any showground and you 'll see that a hell of a lot of showjumping men buy those striped Marks and Sparks underpants or are Donald Duck fans . |
| 7 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 8 | As he got closer he could see that the flowerbeds at the front were awash with colour ; yellows , reds , blues , whites . |
| 9 | Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one . |
| 10 | Looking back I can see that the fall of the tree and the resulting fear were symbolising my anxiety lest the squire should come and catch us raiding his walnut tree . |
| 11 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
| 12 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 13 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 14 | We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today . |
| 15 | But we shall see that the behaviour of financial institutions is often dominant . |
| 16 | Do you see that the promise of things going well with us is attached to keeping the commandment to honour our parents ? |
| 17 | The shoes can now be taken off in either order , or we can see that the order of putting them on makes no difference , that is , RL = LR , or R and L commute . |
| 18 | In section 6.5 , we shall see that the choice of one style of description , rather than the other , can have a substantial effect on learning . |
| 19 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
| 20 | Erm I think you can see that the problem with this kind of biographical approach to history is it can degenerate into trivia . |
| 21 | We shall see that the Law of Property Act 1925 has changed the form of the ordinary legal mortgage ( see pp. 96–9 ) . |
| 22 | But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane . |
| 23 | But they concern themselves primarily with discussing the application of nuclear physics , and I can not see that the work of a biologist could profitably be discussed at such a conference , and certainly not by me . |
| 24 | You 'll see that the majority of patients fall into the low risk group with progressively smaller numbers in the intermediate and high risk group . |
| 25 | In Table 3.3 we can see that the ratio of banks ' holdings of ‘ base money ’ to total assets/liabilities is rather less than 1 per cent . |
| 26 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 27 | The economist 's view is : others will see that the logic of the situation calls for cheating , so you had better cheat , too . |
| 28 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 29 | Looking up you will see that the whole of the clerestory of 1457 was replaced after a fire in 1679 , although the side aisles still have their original quadripartite vaulting of the 1380s . |
| 30 | We can thus see that the whole of the rest of the parish could be used for arable . |