Example sentences of "it be [prep] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be for seeing into people 's minds ? |
| 2 | It 's like seeing myself in the shadows there , all choked up . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's like seeing a snowball start to roll down a mountain . |
| 4 | Hyacinth , who worked as beautician in a hairdresser 's in Arden , was nineteen , big-busted ( ‘ It 's like seeing Fylingdales Early Warning system coming at you ’ ) and handsome . |
| 5 | It is worth seeing for its two marble medallions which show the Annunciation , with the angel on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right , the work of Agostino Busti . |
| 6 | It is worth seeing whether a historical development can be detected . |
| 7 | It is worth seeing which one means most to you and then experimenting to produce the correct inside attack into impact . |
| 8 | A gentleman ‘ should not make too much use of tobacco ’ but ‘ should recognize the Fort in Agra as unequalled in the whole world [ and ] … must think of Isfahan as the best town in Persia ’ ; if he insists on travelling he should visit ‘ Egypt because it is worth seeing ’ . |
| 9 | This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) . |
| 10 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 11 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 12 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 13 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 14 | That is no more what it is like to be a bat than the following is a good picture of what it is like to see colour : use an instrument to measure the wavelength of the light that is entering your eye : if it is long , you are seeing red , if it is short you are seeing violet or blue . |
| 15 | It is like seeing an old , flickering film of one 's emotional and cultural development . |
| 16 | It was a training programme for young unemployed blacks in the inner cities , and O'Brien , knowing that Charles already had an interest in this area through the Prince 's Trust , thought it was worth seeing if Charles would help . |
| 17 | Yeah , he said it was worth seeing . |
| 18 | ‘ It was after seeing you and Peter in the cloakroom . |
| 19 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 20 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 21 | Watching you jump was … well , it was like seeing a firework going off , a sky-rocket . |
| 22 | Because Roirbak had built the machine to appear humanoid , more so than any of the others in the building , it was like seeing a real dead body lying there . |
| 23 | It was like seeing a very strong gust of wind coming straight at me . |
| 24 | It was like seeing an old friend suffer as Joe Royle 's men , still without an away win , stumbled into the bottom four . |
| 25 | It was like seeing someone walking up and down a wall . |
| 26 | It was like seeing a room that 's been tidied up after a death . |
| 27 | It was like seeing that female body preserved whole in sand in the British Museum , as one feels it should not be , its reddish leathery skin peeling from its temples , crispings of dead gingery hair over its ears . |
| 28 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 29 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |