Example sentences of "could [be] heard [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toni 's voice strongly improved and the guitarist could be heard For the final encore , singing The Dreamer , Toni crouched down at the front of the stage with a candle ; personally I found this a bit dated . |
| 2 | Only the murmur of ships ' engines and swish of bows cutting the tide could be heard across the calm sea . |
| 3 | The electronic strains of a synthesized choir could be heard above the rumbling exhausts and Harry , gazing out at the tinsel-hung shopfronts , wondered if it was this jangling ubiquity of Christmas spirit which made his fellow men and women seem so dismally ignoble . |
| 4 | The only noise that could be heard above the gentle contentment of seaside Scotland was the sound of the national team arriving at the Queens Hotel in Largs . |
| 5 | Comforting sounds of activity could be heard behind the green-baize door . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) of this section , with the result that no new applicants could be heard until the adjourned meeting or later . |
| 7 | Suddenly the palace was haunted by the terrible spectre of total defeat : ‘ … anguished cries could be heard throughout the darkened building such as those which a group of women would utter at the sight of some terrible phantom ’ . |