Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 2 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 3 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
| 4 | Thomas Meehan , one-time caretaker of the Bartram Garden , stressed his early dedication , ‘ So earnest was John Bartram in the pursuit of learning that he could scarcely spare time to eat and might often have been seen with food in one hand and a book in the other . |
| 5 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 6 | Even from the more recent past a younger Pete Dossett or Jason Lunn would have been seen working out on the Farnborough ramp . |
| 7 | This was the time when a younger Jason Lunn and Pete Dossett would have been seen skating at Farnborough . |
| 8 | Never , The Smiths now make Duran Duran , Nik Kershaw or Michael Jackson look years out of date so how could they have been seen as old fashioned at the start ? |
| 9 | Jovially swapping innuendos which a year earlier would have been seen as bad taste sexism by the singer . |
| 10 | To have devised the material ‘ in house ’ using DES and HMI would have been and would have been seen to be unhealthily parochial ; to have used the National Curriculum Council would have involved too great a delay . |
| 11 | But the tragedy is that while essential aspects of the project , such as the denuded hillsides and the transport problem , could have been seen at the start , in 1978 , they were largely ignored . |
| 12 | Some of these functions are best performed by University Institutes , some by a Curriculum Development Centre , some by a Curriculum Planning Unit and it is therefore possible that functions which may hitherto have been seen as either wholly performed by this body or that may increasingly be undertaken in partnership . |
| 13 | ‘ I hear you have been seen going into the House of Oliver , ’ she said , her immaculately painted lips tight with fury . |
| 14 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 15 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 16 | Also to early Christians the story may have been seen as an anticipation of the Last Supper . |
| 17 | If fusion was really taking place , then these products should be found and from the amount of heat measured one could determine the amount of fusion products that should have been seen ; the answer was calculated to be a staggering thousand billion neutrons per second . |
| 18 | Women may have been seen as valuables by which means weaker groups would try to marry their girls ‘ upwards ’ in the creation of alliances , resulting in the occasional movement of ornamental metalwork some distance from the regions where they are most commonly found , the core area of a social grouping . |
| 19 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 20 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 21 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 22 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 23 | This nightmare of processing phantoms reminds us of the procession of daemons from Phaistos , which could have been seen in the sort of opium trance de Quincey described . |
| 24 | While The School Curriculum might have been seen as the government 's definitive statement on the structure of the national curriculum framework , it was superseded in September 1984 by The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum , although the wording of the latest document conveyed the impression that the final nature and scope of the national framework has not yet been determined . |
| 25 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 26 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 27 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 28 | The chevauchèe may have been seen as a challenge to the enemy 's pride and ability to defend his territory , but it is doubtful whether the leader of a chevauchèe , often at the head of but a few thousand men , and needing to make the expedition profitable through the taking of booty and prisoners , was seeking battle . |
| 29 | The teaching role of the staff nurse or equivalent clinical practitioner may have been seen as something of a Cinderella when compared with the traditional tasks of care giving and developing managerial expertise . |
| 30 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |