Example sentences of "[adj] would see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly few would see the engineering industry as a powerful engine of future economic growth . |
| 2 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 3 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 4 | What one person would construe as simply permitting a sinner to dig his own pit , another would see as encouraging further sin . |
| 5 | The opposition parties had on Jan. 4 called for a three-day strike on Jan. 7-9 , with the aim of securing the " immediate and unconditional " resignation of Mobutu , notwithstanding his promise ( in an address to the country on Dec. 31 ) that 1991 would see the organization of presidential and legislative elections and of a referendum on a new constitution . |
| 6 | They doubted if the public would respond to a call for a second general strike over what many would see as only the shooting of one man in a period of frequent shootings and violence . |
| 7 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 8 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 9 | Arty would see that she got his letter before she left for Seapark . |
| 10 | Mosley further explained that 1994 would see the introduction of a ban on all the electronic technological devices which helped to sweep Nigel Mansell and the Canon Williams Renault team to the championship last year . |
| 11 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |