Example sentences of "see that the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 2 | A more likely explanation is that , seeing that the Germans had vanished overnight from the field of Gumbinnen he judged his outnumbered foe to be in full retreat , either to the fortress city of Konigsberg or over the Vistula . |
| 3 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 4 | Who , therefore , is responsible for seeing that the areas available are planned in such a way that this end may be achieved ? |
| 5 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 6 | I could not help seeing that the amendments sketched on the blackboard had been executed ; the modified organs were in place . |
| 7 | The governors are responsible for seeing that the demands of the law are met and that the school teaches the National Curriculum , and in county schools . |
| 8 | Fenella stood very still and stared at the Robe , seeing that the lids were closed and that here and there the lashes were matted and sticky-looking . |
| 9 | Another objection is that jobs will be lost and certainly that would be a serious objection but it 's a speechless one , of course , people who can afford it will still ride and will still employ the same people who are now hunt servants er to look after their horses and themselves and those who ca n't afford horses will continue no doubt to enjoy the spectacle er , that argument does n't hold water and the other objection of course er is that er it would mean the hounds were killed , but since I understand er hunting people kill their hounds anyway when they get too old to keep up , er I think er we can dismiss that argument and leave it to them er to see that the hounds are decently dealt with . |
| 10 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
| 11 | In retrospect , it is now rather easier to see that the cases made for the identification of structural change at the beginning of the 1970s were exaggerated or , at least , rather premature . |
| 12 | He is the chief executive and administrative officer of the local authority , and it is to him in the end that the council must turn to see that the decisions of the council are executed . |
| 13 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 14 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 15 | It is horrifyingly plain to see that the Mondays are in a tragic state , and the excellent photographs highlight this tragedy . |
| 16 | Their responsibility was to see that the rosters were properly worked out you see . |
| 17 | The stress on justice and the rights of the poor , brings us to see that the rights of women become a priority issue . |
| 18 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 19 | Goodlad has been careful to see that the reactions of all participants — pupils , students and teachers — are recorded to measure the success of the scheme . |
| 20 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 21 | But I have been quite fascinated to see that the youngsters today do not seem to have the same interest in reading the paper . |
| 22 | You will be able to see that the laws you love and cherish ( Coulomb 's , Biot-Savart 's , Snell 's , etc. ) all follow from our eqns ( 1.1 ) -(1.7) . |
| 23 | Whatever the conditions and the nature of the crowd , observers could not fail to see that the movies were being enjoyed . |
| 24 | The duty of the auditor is to see that the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the legal requirements and to see that proper accounting practices have been observed in the compilation of the accounts . |
| 25 | Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 26 | The radical instability of the Modernist view of knowledge , whether moral or social , was manifest ; and if Iris Murdoch , among the new novelists , was alone in her capacity as a professional philosopher to counter poor arguments with better , it was equally clear that no one had to be a philosopher to see that the scepticisms of the inter-war years were implausible and ultimately self-contradicting . |
| 27 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 28 | These must be addressed in such a way as to help pupils to see that the questions are open ones , worthy of their attention throughout life . |
| 29 | It does n't require a great bite of imagination to see that the Germans for example would have been extremely reluctant to have been involved in a four nation project with a nuclear capability available as part of it . |
| 30 | It is quite easy to see that the connections are not themselves tensors . |