Example sentences of "[vb base] to see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 2 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 3 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 4 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 5 | Moreover , male criminals tend to see the crimes they commit as too dangerous for women , or too difficult , or their masculine pride may not be willing to accept women as organisers of crime , as ‘ bosses ’ . |
| 6 | There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ . |
| 7 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 8 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 9 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 10 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 11 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 12 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 13 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 14 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 15 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 16 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 17 | F. Tourists flock to see the steep valleys and limestone gorges , such as Dovedale in the Peak District and Cheddar Gorge in the Mendips . |
| 18 | Richmond allege that it was a punch that shattered Gutteridge 's nose and have studied video evidence before writing to Rugby , who now want to see the tape before making any response . |
| 19 | I want to see the clothes you wore last night . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Now I want to see the room . ’ |
| 21 | Tickets sold out weeks beforehand , and if you want to see the band now your best chance will be in some of the more obscure locations ever played . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to see the correspondence between the European Commission and the Government over subsidies and over guarantees about the future of Rover 's activities and jobs , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 23 | Holding back he said , on impulse : ‘ Grandma , I just want to see the lake , before I go … |
| 24 | ‘ They all want to see the Conservatives back in power . ’ |
| 25 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to see the animals ! ’ the wee boy ran on ahead into the main gallery . |
| 27 | ‘ If you want to see the war , you should go that way , ’ he said , gesturing wearily in the direction of a gutted restaurant . |
| 28 | If we want to see the night sky , we have to leave the bright lights of the city behind and climb a darkened mountain . |
| 29 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 30 | All this is not very encouraging for those who want to see the GCSE as a single simple examination system catering for virtually all school pupils according to their needs . |