Example sentences of "[conj] see it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it . |
| 2 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 3 | ( Without a cover sheet , there was no knowing who might have read it or seen it . ) |
| 4 | I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite . |
| 5 | Read it as an entertaining mock gothic tale , or see it as a celebration of Scottish pride and of feminism , and a condemnation of the return to Victorian values . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 8 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 9 | I always enjoyed reading Shakespeare more than seeing it . ’ |
| 10 | One way of putting this may be to contrast a view of intervention that sees it as being essentially brief , focused , and assessment-based , and one that conceives intervention , whether explicitly or implicitly , as being a longer-term and more broadly supportive enterprise , in which social care planning and ‘ networking ’ have a high profile . |
| 11 | If it is a slow-moving species , then it must rely instead on provoking a panic response in the attacker , a response that sees it pull back in horror and retreat to a safe place . |
| 12 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 13 | Amstrad Plc 's Personal Digital Assistant due for launch on Thursday sounds like a pretty hot property : the Daily Mail has had a sneak preview , and says that it is a £300 device that fits a jacket pocket with a pen-enabled screen on which the user can write notes and draw pictures that can be dumped onto a personal computer — ‘ looks good , feels good and is very clever ’ says the guy that saw it . |
| 14 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 15 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 16 | Usually found around the edge of the forest close to open countryside , you are more likely to hear the loud laughing call of the green woodpecker than see it , as it is quite a shy bird . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're looking for people with enthusiasm that see it as an exciting career and really want to do the job , ’ enthuses Mr Queen . |
| 18 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 19 | But not so ( we are told ) : Conservative advocates of tariffs and social reforms like old age pensions , wages councils , regulation of sweated trades were , Fforde argues , simply engaged in ‘ principled opportunism ’ ; this was ‘ not Collectivist Conservatism but expedient Conservatism ’ , and to see it as otherwise would be to allow oneself to be ‘ misled by manufactured appearances ' or what Fforde describes elsewhere as the gap between ‘ professed stance and true intention ’ . |
| 20 | It is the utopian dream of a Christian heresy and to see it as anything less than that is to totally misunderstand it . |
| 21 | I needed my own fairy-tale — my own legend — and to see it come true . |
| 22 | Certainly he seems to define active life in terms of outward works and to see it as inferior to the inward experience of contemplation : Some people are doubtful as to which life is the more meritorious and excellent , the contemplative or the active . |
| 23 | He had forgotten all about his mother 's present and seeing it made him think even more of home . |
| 24 | I consciously look with the object of transcending the commonplace and seeing it transformed . |
| 25 | Then one morning I did not go early for my paper , and seeing it on the mat Cedric brought it to me . |
| 26 | So what makes more sense — buying two at £15 each and losing one , or buying one at £30 and seeing it thrive ? |
| 27 | ‘ I feel very pleased after changing our style for this match and seeing it work so well against a Premier League team . |
| 28 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 29 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194–219 ) |
| 30 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |