Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] see [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere .
2 Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " .
3 Er the other point I would make about the the figures under H One , really is that erm the twelve thirty figures that you 've seen in the tables is our best estimate at the present time , based on the site survey we 've carried out .
4 Erm , sir , I want to address the point , if it 's the right time about the level of housing provision the Greater York area in particular , erm that we 've seen round the table here that we have special circumstances applying to York , and to its surrounding area .
5 ‘ I 'm confident we have nothing to fear in the market place provided we continue to aim for the type of quality sheep that we have seen in the best forward at Stoneleigh . ’
6 Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost .
7 He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady .
8 You would n't have heard of him , of course , but I used to read his articles to Daddy at one time , and I remember seeing in the papers that he had been very ill .
9 V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments .
10 ‘ Then since you have seen through the deception , my lord — ’ Joan saw Elizabeth Mowbray 's gaze upon her and lowered her voice still further ‘ — methinks I should leave forthwith . ’
11 ‘ I 'll have to finish the porter when I 've seen to the hosses , Mrs Salt , ma'am , ’ said Hawkins and hurried out .
12 Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes .
13 We can go there as soon as I have seen to the army at Pesth . ’
14 People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn .
15 As you 've seen from the erm discussion paper that we submitted sir , it 's our feeling that the most helpful way to proceed might be to add a new policy to the alteration .
16 Now try to change the following to improper fractions : unc As you have seen in the last few questions , improper fractions Numerator are " top heavy " .
17 As you have seen in the previous exercise , the interception angle is normally decided by you , based on the number of degrees off the required track and also the wind effect .
18 Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action .
19 This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate .
20 Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning .
21 We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way .
22 er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate .
23 Different species of lemur occupy different living spaces just as we have seen with the guenons of the African forests .
24 As we have seen with the Oedipus myth , the final move in revealing its meaning informs the anthropologist about features of the culture that are beyond the content of the myth .
25 Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier .
26 As we have seen from the blueprint of Mrs Thatcher 's Engine Room in table 1 , she now presides over some 160 of the hated things , though not , naturally , in the literal sense of chairing the lot .
27 As we have seen from the above results many common language structures are domain-independent , and to provide comprehensive coverage of these a collocation dictionary must be based on as varied a corpus as possible .
28 As we have seen from the memories of two of the survivors , younger sisters not initially interested in the trade might end up following their sisters " example .
29 As we have seen from the chapters on health , education and other services , there are still many unsolved social problems and unmet needs for residential care , for housing , for better education facilities for children with special needs , for trained staff , etc .
30 If there is an overcrowding of the scope of the curriculum , however , it is more than matched , as we have seen in the primary illustrations , by the prospective assessment system .
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