Example sentences of "to see [Wh adv] [adj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be helpful to attend six meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to see how close is the identification with acknowledged sufferers . |
| 2 | To see how this is done look again at the description of reverse punch . |
| 3 | Unless its practices are to arise totally spontaneously out of the ‘ innate ’ qualities of the new media , it is hard to see how this is to occur or what the music will be like . |
| 4 | To see how this is done by experts , read some of the British novels of Celia Fremlin or the American novels of Ursula Curtiss . |
| 5 | For example , in messages like : Your coat 's on fire The wing 's breaking up The radio 's gone wrong Your uncle 's died probably the majority of English speakers would place the tonic stress on the subject noun , though it is difficult to see how this is more important than the last lexical word in each of the sentences . |
| 6 | When posed in such stark but accurate terms it becomes difficult to see why this is supposed to amount to a distinct moral justification for punishment . |
| 7 | To see why this is so let us consider the situation in the light of the foregoing argument . |
| 8 | Such a state is clearly closely allied to the mania of the manic-depressive ( indeed , this quotation is from an autobiographical account by someone who was predominantly manic-depressive ) , and our researches into the cultural background of these modern psychopathological conditions allow us to see why this is so . |