Example sentences of "to see that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC .
2 Now I 'm a governor of two schools and from this perspective in particular , I 'm very pleased to see that as a result of the legacy of previous Conservative administration and the generous S S A proposals for this year , that the Conservative group have been able to put forward a budget which enables schools budgets to be increased fully for demography and inflation and certainly I know that was a great worry this year in many of our schools that that might not be possible so it 's good to see that it is possible .
3 It seems important that I should have links , in developing links you ought to see that as part of our agenda .
4 I am glad to see that at last many parents now appear to be doing this .
5 Of course , like Marshall , Boogie 's reputation is built on tone , so it 's good to see that at the centre of all this gain and distortion is a fundamentally great sound .
6 As a regular viewer of Casualty , I am delighted to see that at last television producers have acknowledged that nursing auxiliaries like myself ( and health care assistants ) do exist , as a health care assistant has now been introduced into the programme .
7 It is easy to see that at high prices consumers will only want to consume small quantities , while a fall in price will mean that demand increases .
8 As one of the growing number of management consultants here in Australia attempting to show that business can be both profitable and have an ethical approach , it is heartening to see that at least some directors think we need a profound change in how we work .
9 You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often .
10 We are pleased to see that at least the Labour Party now are deciding that they can at last work with the Government .
11 The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads .
12 It 's truly gratifying to see that despite all this talk of reorganisation Big Blue is still willing to eat its own children .
13 This was the proper enterprise of the loving wife , to defend her man ; the men performed their acts of authority and occupied the seats of visible influence , but you did n't have to be especially keen-eyed to see that behind the card-players and the drinkers , the officials in their pompous uniforms , the clerks with their mounds of bureaucratic forms , the farmers and the peasants , women were standing .
14 It is not hard to see that in Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound is centrally concerned with just this question , and is defending his own scale of priorities against Hewlett 's or Newbolt 's .
15 He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity .
16 It was easy to see that in reality the tables were old and stained with coffee rings , the seats cheap and plastic , the magazines tatty and two years out of date , and the strange , tropical foliage too glossily green and perfect not to be artificial .
17 He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences .
18 In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat .
19 It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter .
20 I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of .
21 Choirs will be diligently fostered in their efforts … ’ and ‘ Bishops … will take good care to see that in all sung services the whole congregation may he able to take therein the active part that is theirs … ’
22 I was pleased to see that in the 1992 World Cup team there were four Afrikaners in murg en beens ( in marrow and bone ) who had Afrikaans as their first language of fluency — Wessels , Cronje , Bosch and Sonald .
23 I am encouraged to see that in the more recent case of Ensign Tankers v. Stokes the House of Lords has now rejected the notion that the mere fact that a transaction is undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a fiscal advantage compels the court to ignore and nullify all the fiscal consequences which are beneficial to the taxpayer .
24 Yes , I welcome the substantial orders that have been received and I was pleased to see that in the past few days a number of them have come here .
25 It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place .
26 IT is heartening to see that in the wake of Glasgow 1990 and despite increasing difficulties in funding , large scale multi-media events can still take place .
27 And , lassitude apart , he had more than enough sense to see that after the triumph of the Abdication , with the memory of the vicissitudes of the previous year so fresh in his mind , a calm movement away from the gaming tables and towards the chip-cashing caisse was obviously prudent .
28 Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots .
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