Example sentences of "to see [subord] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to see if feminism had really had any impact on what was available by way of art books to the art-loving public . |
| 2 | Contraindications for dilatation and curettage were : menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea without a trial of conservative treatment ; to exclude endometrial polyp ; curiosity , during another procedure such as laparoscopy or examination under anaesthetic ; to see if ovulation has occurred . |
| 3 | Oh I 've got to see if Frank 's changed . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , McHale is waiting to see if Middlesbrough decide to recall on-loan keeper Ian Ironside because of the injury to Stephen Pears . |
| 5 | For a start , they argue , America has already told Jordan that it wants to be friends again ( watch to see if America leans on Israel to be more accommodating to Jordan 's need for water ) . |
| 6 | The court will check the court records to see if instalments have been made and any " pass through " must be taken into account . |
| 7 | She glanced up , apparently casually , to see if Nenna had taken this too hard . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , it was worth turning our house over to see if Albie had stashed the drugs inside . |
| 9 | The idea behind the repetition was to see if performance improved with repetition ; the idea of the group discussion was to see if that improved performance . |
| 10 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 11 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 12 | ASTRONAUTS will bake loaves of bread on the shuttle Endeavour — due for launching this week-end — to see if yeast rises in space . |
| 13 | The Committee on the Safety of Medicines wants to see if warnings issued this year are adequate , the Department of Health said last night . |
| 14 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 15 | Mr Wakerley said : ‘ Are we to believe there is another kidnapper , the kidnapper of Julie Dart , the killer of Julie Dart , who by the purest coincidence used the bridges across the Dove Valley Trail to collect ransom money three miles apart , who stencilled his messages and who thought of using detectors to try to see if police had bugged the money so they could follow ? . ’ |
| 16 | First there was the indignity of rolling up his trousers and removing his socks and shoes , then the endless probing of horizontal holes in the rocks to see if pungars lurked within . |
| 17 | It will be interesting to see if Novell comes to any of the same business decisions once it takes over . |
| 18 | We could have searched the seas to see if Bartholomew had survived . ’ |
| 19 | At length , a handbill was circulated , unsigned , calling for a staff meeting , without Branson , Draper or any other directors present ; on the bottom was the suggestion that a vote should be taken to see if staff wished to be represented by a trades union . |
| 20 | ‘ I am likely to need another goalkeeper for next season if Marples joins another club and I want to see if Key fits the bill . ’ |
| 21 | It would be interesting to see if ethanol stimulates release of histamine from mast cells in culture . |
| 22 | Killion saw the SE5a topple and fall over , but he was too busy fighting off the circling scouts to see if Dangerfield crashed . |
| 23 | He glanced sideways to see if Jehana had heard Kaidu 's question , and saw from her expression that she had . |
| 24 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 25 | Speeding in the town is being monitored to see if traffic slowing measures are needed . |
| 26 | You could experiment by commenting out the buffers=xx line in CONFIG.SYS to see whether buffering has much effect on your system , or if you have DOS 5.0 play with the secondary cache it provides . |
| 27 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 28 | In an attempt to do justice to the complexity of opinions , the research comprises three parts : a national attitude survey , to determine the structure of attitudes at one point in time ; follow-up interviews with a small number of respondents to the national survey , in which the experience of using various welfare services is being explored in detail ; and the re-analysis of information from previous surveys on similar topics , to see whether attitudes have changed much in recent years . |
| 29 | A fair employer will already have given thought to the alternatives to redundancy , perhaps even contacting other companies within the same group to see whether vacancies exist elsewhere . |
| 30 | We look forward to hearing from Mo and Barbara to see whether Sparkle has lived up to expectations . |