Example sentences of "[adj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 2 | He is due to see a chiropractor tomorrow and is likely to undergo surgery . |
| 3 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 4 | And probably be an idea if you remind me sometime during that week when I 'm due to see you . |
| 5 | He was due to see Smith next day . |
| 6 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 7 | But defender Keith Proctor has suffered a reaction to his knee injury after playing for the reserves last weekend and is now due to see a specialist . |
| 8 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 9 | How absurd to see the works of William Penn in flaming scarlet , and George Fox 's Journal in Bishop 's purple ! |
| 10 | The policy thus ensured the Woodvilles , and indeed Gloucester , a continuing place in government and makes it unnecessary to see the events of April 1483 in terms of an immediate power struggle . |
| 11 | The policy thus ensured the Woodvilles , and indeed Gloucester , a continuing place in government and makes it unnecessary to see the events of April 1483 in terms of an immediate power struggle . |
| 12 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 13 | But for a stranger to see it . |
| 14 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 15 | I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile . |
| 16 | It was refreshing to see how much importance is now being given to producing both valid and acceptable analytical results . |
| 17 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 18 | It was quite refreshing to see and read that someone else saw these things and could articulate them in a better and more entertaining way than I could |
| 19 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 20 | Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance . |
| 21 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 22 | It would be very refreshing to see Luke embarrassed , for a change . |
| 23 | That has now been achieved and , although we know that a long road awaits the negotiators , it is refreshing to see the leaders of the Palestinian people at the conference table and to watch their demeanour as they approach the massive problems . |
| 24 | It is extraordinarily refreshing to see Kingdon 's emphasis on the geographical processes and patterns that must underlie any transformation through time . |
| 25 | At a time of so much egocentric materialism it 's refreshing to see the NI fighting so effectively for imaginative humanitarianism . " |
| 26 | ‘ How refreshing to see that you believe in fostering good relations between management and staff , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 27 | It is somewhat refreshing to see a North-East industrialist make a success of his business in relative anonymity . |
| 28 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 29 | If , as the sub who wrote the title suggests , there is another side to the truth , then we would be happy I first of all , and then those who admire Manzoni to see reliable and contemporary documents which prove it . |
| 30 | He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing . |