Example sentences of "[was/were] see in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized the importance of kinship systems for the Indians and how for them most social relationships were seen in terms of who was the child of whom and who was married to whom . |
| 2 | A rather unsatisfactory marriage was glorified in his imagination by high-sounding comparisons between himself and Dante , while his largely innocent office romances — which do not appear to have gone much beyond crushes on secretaries — were seen in terms of Launcelot 's devotion to Guinevere and the threatened breaking of the Round Table . |
| 3 | But we shall mistake its real substance if we begin with the cult of saints and relics seen , as they were seen in the Reformation , in terms of channels through which a distant , concealed world of the holy is made present and accessible . |
| 4 | To onlookers these men were seen in many cases as ‘ Nonconformist ministers ’ and of many it could be said that ‘ his prayer was like himself , rough and earnest ’ . |
| 5 | JAPAN has opened its own version of Summerhill , the ‘ progressive ’ school whose pupils were seen in a television documentary last week fighting , screaming , swearing and — it seemed — never going to classes . |
| 6 | Mr Lyons has been part of the team which restructured Labour 's industrial policy , the fruits of which were seen in John Smith 's alternative Budget . |
| 7 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 8 | Only 68 cases were seen in England in 1976 and these were mostly seen in or near ports . |
| 9 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 10 | Soft pink draperies were seen in Her Majesty 's bedroom , and all four apartments were beautifully appointed . |
| 11 | Most were seen in early 1963 , with records from nine localities totalling at least 40 birds . |
| 12 | Thus , up to 5,000 together were seen in Rye Bay in early 1947 , and the winters of 1955/56 and 1962/63 produced flocks totalling several hundreds along the coast . |
| 13 | The highest numbers were recorded in Sussex , where about 300 , possibly more , were seen in parties of up to 100 birds . |
| 14 | The birds were seen in five general areas : Eastbourne to Lewes ; the Adur and Arun valleys ; round Midhurst and Harting ; and the Selsey Peninsular . |
| 15 | For example , between 1961 and 1976 55 were seen in the spring between 10 March and 16 May , and c. 150 in the autumn between 23 June and 3 October . |
| 16 | A total of nine elements were seen in the slab and its counterpart and some more have been exposed by careful excavation . |
| 17 | A sequence when Custer attacks an Indian village could not help but stir vivid memories of the My Lai massacre and the photos of Vietnamese on fire that were seen in all the newspapers and on television during that dark period in America 's history . |
| 18 | Cross-party anti-Tory candidates were seen in the Munich by-election before the war , and constantly during the war . |
| 19 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ The two men and car were seen in the area on separate occasions near the suspected time of the attack , and we need to eliminate them from our inquiry . |
| 20 | That those unexpected interests in colour are still valid has been confirmed by Ryman 's ‘ Versions ’ , a series of sixteen recent pictures employing a thin layer of white pigment washed over coloured grounds laid on fibreglass , which were seen in Shaffhausen and at Pace , the artist 's New York gallery , in an exhibition which closed last month . |
| 21 | Another kind of insight to be added to this model can be gained from other people 's responses to the same , or similar places Dame Laura Knight RA , in her autobiography The Magic of a Line gives an insight into how the Malverns were seen in the 1930s . |
| 22 | In Øster 's study no preputial adhesions were seen in 95 boys aged 17 , none of whom had undergone any operative procedure for separation of adhesions — strongly suggesting that adhesions resolve spontaneously without treatment . |
| 23 | Geographically , France produced ‘ an outstanding result ’ , and ‘ encouraging trends ’ were seen in Spain and Asia Pacific . |
| 24 | The two were seen in a blue Peugeot pick-up in a private road between the Post Office and church . |
| 25 | The last recession budgets of this type were seen in the 1974–75 slump . |
| 26 | ‘ And the times for you getting down to London for the attack on Oliver , if you include the times you — or whoever — were seen in the toilets at Tottenham Court Road , are looking very tight ; there was a delay on all the flights from Edinburgh into Heathrow that day … makes it impossible , really . ’ |
| 27 | There were passing references to social services as investment but primarily they were seen in consumption terms . |
| 28 | At the midpoint of the study all interviewers were seen in small groups for a psychological debriefing . |
| 29 | Similar trends were seen in the Lancet , another general medical journal . |
| 30 | They , you can see that the patients can be considered in four groups , those in the top line which in which the marker tumour was absent and no other tumours were seen in the bladder . |