Example sentences of "[subord] see " in BNC.

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1 Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant .
2 When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom .
3 Plenty of other modern animals make their living in conditions where seeing is difficult or impossible .
4 Job application Name of job , where seen advertised , date available to start , any previous applications to the same company .
5 Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground .
6 After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature .
7 Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups .
8 I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’
9 For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later .
10 But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " .
11 " Nothing would give your mother greater pleasure I 'm sure , Chuck , than to see you bring distinction to yourself and your family , " cut in the senator reprovingly before his wife could reply .
12 Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving .
13 There is nothing a baby likes more than to see something brightly coloured an interesting .
14 What more cheering than to see distracted people looking for seats when we were definitely full up ? …
15 There were those among the remaining husbands of the five daughters of Ealdred who would like nothing better than to see Siward perish in an effort to plant a few Anglian soldiers and a bishop in some crumbling old forts in the Lothians .
16 Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify .
17 I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house .
18 ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said .
19 Rather than seeing containment as that which pre-empts and defeats transgression we need to see both containment and transgression as potentially productive processes .
20 But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
21 Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together .
22 That had turned Leila 's stomach more than seeing Zambia being shot .
23 There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised .
24 It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface .
25 Cohen stresses therefore , the collective response as central to delinquency , rather than seeing such behaviour as an individual response to the failure to achieve middle-class goals , as Merton argued .
26 He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom .
27 Rather than seeing the exploitation of the peasantry as the means to industrialisation Bukharin insisted that ‘ a qualitative increase in the productivity of national labour , and a determined fight against non-productive expenditure … are the main sources of accumulation . ’
28 Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party .
29 Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals .
30 Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals .
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