Example sentences of "[be] see [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 2 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 3 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 4 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 5 | ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments . |
| 6 | We are seeing that we have a message to communicate . |
| 7 | Make sure , too , it is a feeding roll you are seeing and not any other kind of activity — though it is unlikely to be anything other than a feeding roll at that time of day . |
| 8 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 9 | And yet we are seeing as members , coming back to Mr 's point , making a , setting an example which is opposite to that which we force on our employees . |
| 10 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 11 | In other birds a size difference is the giveaway : the wheatear is a summer visitor to Shetland , generally leaving in August or September , and it is only when birds of the race which breeds in Greenland , which are distinctly bigger , are seen that we know strangers are passing through . |
| 12 | Similar responses are seen after cytotoxic agents are used . |
| 13 | Urgent cases are seen whether we have the funds or not . |
| 14 | He believed that our problem was one that faces many great enterprises today and he believed that by helping us , who are seen and heard in so many places , he and his bank were making a contribution to our cultural life . |
| 15 | This means not only that those procedures are seen and felt to be fair . |
| 16 | Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change . |
| 17 | The point is that when I go The best thing is wedding fairs where you are seen and talk to people , but again that is a lot of effort depends very much |
| 18 | The clergy are seen as above criticism in their religious statements , and such criticism can cause considerable distress to many people . |
| 19 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 20 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 21 | Reliable data to help to predict the spread of the HIV infection are seen as vital by the Department of Health as it draws up strategies for fighting Aids . |
| 22 | These two worthy causes are seen as being particularly close to Welsh hearts as Welfare Officers in the area appreciate the support that the RAF Benevolent Fund has given to persons in Wales , and as Richard Peck House is the nearest RAFA convalescent facility for people in North Wales . |
| 23 | Whether Carthage or London , the poem 's cities are seen as horrible , life-denying . |
| 24 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
| 25 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 26 | In orthodox families , educated women are seen as destructive and potentially immoral , and an educated daughter is a source of scandal and potential family dishonour . |
| 27 | So much so that they are seen as ‘ natural . ’ |
| 28 | Single mothers are seen as totally destabilising , a threat to life as couples know it . |
| 29 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 30 | These are seen as essential and other parts of the party 's platform are negotiable : things that may be changed in order to increase popular support for the party . |