Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [modal v] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the pupil or parent may now see what is in the file , it should otherwise be held in confidence . |
| 2 | Still she pulled herself upwards , beset by thoughts of falling , of breaking a leg , of dying all alone in shadows of vermilion where Maggie would never see her . |
| 3 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 4 | She prayed that Maisie could somehow see how well her boy had done for himself , and how he had come to regret the hatred that almost destroyed him . |
| 5 | Visibility was so poor that Defries could hardly see the runway in front of her . |
| 6 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 7 | Though God is totally free of culture he chooses to clothe his message in cultural form so that people will immediately see its relevance and feel its impact . |
| 8 | If you are not prepared to project it properly , it is most likely that people will only see the wrong parts ! |
| 9 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 10 | They drove towards Lulling , Harrison still barking , and Agnes returned to break the dreadful news that Dorothy might never see the pair again . |
| 11 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 12 | For adults it 's enjoyable to browse through , and kids will hopefully see it as a basis for future investigations into a wide range of subjects . |
| 13 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 14 | For some reason , perhaps because they had heard it together , she equated that girl with the dead girl in her mind and thought that if bombers could actually see the people they were going to kill , see that they were young and beautiful and full of hope , they might not do what they did . |
| 15 | These are related to vitality and sensitives can frequently see disease here before it manifests in the physical . |
| 16 | Mrs Dempster had dusted and washed the picture , and Moore could now see it quite clearly . |
| 17 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 18 | As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’ |
| 19 | Within a day or two it appeared that a complete South African team would be fielded and Treviso might just see the start of rugby 's World War III . |
| 20 | Central defenders Flowers and Partner could also see some action this evening . |
| 21 | I 'm a trooper , I 'm a tearaway , and time will never see Another king , or anything , that fights like me |
| 22 | Alice and Henry will probably see it differently . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 24 | I am a new member of the RNLI , only joining in 1990 spurred into action by visiting the NE coast and seeing one or two of its lifeboats … £6 annual membership is very good value and could be increased , but £20 would possibly see a decline in numbers . |
| 25 | The Wheal Martyn works ceased commercial production in 1968 , but visitors can now see the whole history and process of producing china clay , as well as the machinery used , which included a huge breastshot waterwheel of 35 feet diameter , to drive pumps in the quarry pit . |
| 26 | If individuals could see more widely — as we can , by virtue of the narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings — they would realise that events have a cause-and-effect logic , though there are so many causes that perhaps no one but God can ever see them all at once . |
| 27 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |
| 28 | It did n't move but Thomas could clearly see what she was pointing at . |
| 29 | He 's a simple manic-depressive , as Millie could evidently see , and he 's talking himself up like a balloon from the safe plains of the depression into the thin , high air of the mania . |