Example sentences of "[adv] seen [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've only seen well we 've seen advertized six five six and seven |
| 2 | Power is only seen when it is put to use . |
| 3 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 4 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 5 | Jerrome ( 1982 ) has explored the significance of a confidante for older women in maintaining life satisfaction , even if that person is only seen once a year . |
| 6 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 7 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 8 | HDTV is an effort to create very high resolution television capable of delivering a level of clarity and detail hitherto seen only in top quality cinema productions or 35 mm transparencies . |
| 9 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we 've all seen enough now , ladies and gentlemen . |
| 11 | The article was accompanied by that old picture you 've all seen before of Jonny Woodward on Beau Geste at Froggatt , described in the caption as a ‘ prime potential target for bolting ’ . |
| 12 | Gaitskell , Citrine , Self and Wilkinson had all seen earlier that , to be effective , the differential charge would have to be large : perhaps 1¼d . |
| 13 | Even the validity of many of the ‘ I 've been here before ’ experiences is rather doubtful as , with the growth of television and cinema , we have all seen so many places which we may later come to visit . |
| 14 | You 've obviously seen quite a lot of good painting . |
| 15 | This means that the baggy peasant look will be widely seen again : roomy , comfy clothes that look best when rumpled . |
| 16 | External control , whether from abroad or from the South , was widely seen again in the later 1980s as a threat to the North . |
| 17 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 18 | But now to be ‘ orientated ’ is widely seen not as helpful guidance but as a test one has to submit to . |
| 19 | The introduction of Japanese plants to South Wales , and later to north-east England ( led by Nissan ) , was widely seen chiefly as a spur to UK firms to ‘ improve ’ their working practices and productivity , although Dunning ( 1986 ) estimated that Japanese employment in the UK could increase to 22,000 by the end of the 1980s and to a possible 250,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Only 68 cases were seen in England in 1976 and these were mostly seen in or near ports . |
| 21 | Finally , catatonia , in which the person enters a state of total physical immobility , is rarely seen nowadays . |
| 22 | Involvement of the spermatic cord , epididymis , or testis by infection can lead to sterility , but , again , this complication was much more common before the last World War and is rarely seen today . |
| 23 | This unnatural practice is rarely seen today . |
| 24 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 25 | Very rarely seen away from Iceland . |
| 26 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |
| 27 | Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases . |
| 28 | Boy chases girl and catches her in a fond embrace without pausing as they cover the stage with footwork of a speed rarely seen elsewhere . |
| 29 | From early May until late September our urban commons are green jungles , reflecting seasonal changes in a way rarely seen elsewhere in towns . |
| 30 | The parliament , the Rathaus , the University ( interestingly in the new and not the old city ) , the Burgtheater , each built in a different historicist style symbolizing each building 's aims and principles , were conceived on a scale of monumentality rarely seen elsewhere in modern Europe . |