Example sentences of "we [vb mod] see [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Only in mathematics do we see a successful artificial and international language , though when we come to talk about visual language we may see something a little like it ; and music might count as a language , though one in which it is hard to say anything very definite .
2 But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that .
3 I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’
4 Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives .
5 We may see one and the same ( rigid ) object moving , perhaps involving a change in its appearance due to rotation .
6 We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy .
7 A problem is a problem in the person concerned , not because we may see it as being such .
8 Come to us , God of love , that we may see you in the poor , the sick and the rejected .
9 Both sides like to attack , so we should see plenty of goals .
10 Some Whigs were implicated in Jacobite activities , amongst them John Wildman , Charles Mordaunt ( third Earl of Monmouth ) , the Earls of Dorset and Shrewsbury , and the Duke of Bolton , although whether we should see their alleged intrigues as much more than fire-insurance Jacobitism is unclear .
11 ‘ It 's strange we should see one this evening . ’
12 We should see what we can do on this matter and expect another report back and then they actually can tell .
13 We should see him soon he was doing some er curtain tracks for us .
14 But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope .
15 Well you see that complaint is that and myself are not actively seeing these regional managers , they believe that we should see them
16 for er we should see them away at Old Trafford , I ca n't see any problem there can you ?
17 We travelled the length and breadth of the island , stopping to paint as often as we could persuade him to do so … which was n't always easy , as he was so keen that we should see everything .
18 Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information .
19 Rather than seeing child abuse as an exceptional problem requiring an exceptional response , and hence a qualitatively different practice , we should see it as part of child care and hence child care practice .
20 I think , I think we should see it for what it is , which is a power struggle inside a ruling elite in the Soviet Union for which we do n't really have an interest in taking sides .
21 ‘ Better we should see you off than those bastards you expected , is n't it ? ’
22 We should see our respective institutions as having equal status , and our individual functions as equivalent regardless of grade .
23 We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph .
24 We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph .
25 Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting .
26 Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was .
27 We must see him .
28 We must see him . ’
29 Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context .
30 We must see you get some decent food or it 'll be a waste of time paying you a wage . ’
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