Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Williams ' chapter ( 3.1 ) , we may perhaps see a justification of equality of condition or outcome on the basis of equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | You should also see a newsagent on your left , so anticipate a man crossing the road with his nose in a newspaper and children darting across with ice-creams or sweeties . ’ |
| 3 | AFTER the string of contract calamities , which has sent the Serious Fraud Office globetrotting , Sir Derek Alun-Jones and his beleaguered Ferranti team must now see a small chink of light . |
| 4 | AFTER the string of contract calamities , which has sent the Serious Fraud Office globetrotting , Sir Derek Alun-Jones and his beleaguered Ferranti team must now see a small chink of light . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you sure you should n't see a doctor ? ’ asked Apricot , as Rhoda 's cough grew nastier . |
| 6 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 7 | ‘ But when they meet me , they may not see a kind creature who has helped them . |
| 8 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 9 | If you leave them behind and take to the lanes you 'll rarely see a car . |
| 10 | Use it regularly and you 'll soon see a dramatic improvement to the neck , chin and lines around the mouth and eyes . |
| 11 | If we 're very quiet we might just see a deer . |
| 12 | At the end of this part of the presentation we 'll also see a short videotape which erm discusses the experiences of one of customers using this architecture . |
| 13 | Who knows , perhaps we 'll even see a miracle or two . |
| 14 | But now you can fish Stenness all dy and you 'll never see a fish . |
| 15 | Now she 's in a Home , May still sees a lot of her family and still finds herself consulted by one of her numerous great-nieces . |
| 16 | Are you really saying that you 'd rather see a rubbish tip than fairways ? ’ |
| 17 | a cream , yeah , a cream telly you know , oh I 'll have that one he says when you sell it , oh Christ almighty , I thought I was , excuse me perhaps I , I would like a teletext one , just get , you know I do n't want , I 'm not sort I do n't like the colour , I 'd rather see a white one in the corner |
| 18 | and could only see a turn-up |
| 19 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 20 | Alice looked all round the table , but she could only see a teapot . |
| 21 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 22 | Zanya looked out of their spaceship , but she could only see a large , boring , grey planet . |
| 23 | It was pitch black ; she could scarcely see a hand in front of her . |
| 24 | You 'd sooner see a vegetarian at an abattoir . |
| 25 | ‘ If shoppers had their wish , the region could soon see a revolution with empty shops but booming business . ’ |
| 26 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 28 | She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest . |
| 29 | Ruth wandered through the department , studying the dresses on display — and the young ladies behind the counters as well — but she could not see a familiar face . |
| 30 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |