Example sentences of "[was/were] seen [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries . |
| 2 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 3 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 4 | Neither Joseph , nor his wife , Maria , were seen again that day . |
| 5 | No kit or ground crew were seen again by the majority of the pilots . |
| 6 | Darius checked with some friends and learned that the heavies were seen again Sunday evening . |
| 7 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 8 | Intermittent periods of activity were seen thereafter but the timing , amplitude , and duration of this activity was unpredictable . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's continues its cost-cutting format of having multiple lot colour illustrations far distanced from the cataloguing , much to the irritation of buyers who were seen constantly frantically flipping back and forth . |
| 10 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 11 | Between 1950 and 1976 from one to about 30 birds were seen annually , except in 1960 when there were about 160 , mainly in the spring . |
| 12 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 13 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |
| 14 | Strangely , for a Doctor Who story , the alien villains of the piece , the Voord , were seen only in Episode One and in half of Episode Six . |
| 15 | In this study , pathological examination of the necropsy specimens showed that amyloid deposits in the myenteric plexuses were seen only in the AA cases . |
| 16 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 17 | Boro were seen more as an attacking force in this half without achieving a breakthrough . |
| 18 | Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism . |
| 19 | Large rectal contractions ( pressure rise >20 cmH 2 O persisting for 10 seconds or longer ) were seen significantly more frequently throughout ramp rectal distension in spinal patients ( total number to 200 ml distension , median ; spinal patients v normal subjects : 2 v 0.5 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 20 | The universities were seen less as " finishing schools " and more as offering access to a career . |
| 21 | Most birds are seen singly , but two together are not very unusual , and three were seen together at Weir Wood Reservoir on 30 August 1976 . |
| 22 | In addition feeding parties of up to 80 birds were seen offshore , mainly in early autumn , and 800 flew west off Beachy Head on 18 September 1976 , the largest movement yet seen off Sussex . |
| 23 | Management of interest rates and the exchange rate were seen as more effective influences . |
| 24 | It was films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant which were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption , since the possibility of harm to at least a proportion of the wider public could not be ruled out . |
| 25 | They were seen as inextricably bound up . |
| 26 | Often , it was not only the arts which were seen as less useful , but university subjects like physics : the physical science degree was regarded as one which was more useful for getting jobs in industry . |
| 27 | On the other hand , coordinators were seen as more effective than most other PNP resources . |
| 28 | Moreover , there was nothing egalitarian about the set-up and there was no expectation that the state would do much and interfere extensively in the " private " sphere of power and economic arrangements : these were seen as best left to the unseen hand of " impersonal " market forces . |
| 29 | because landlords were seen as progressive and they might want , they di the erm communists did n't want to get rid of them as a class but in their feudal capacity . |
| 30 | Not many lives ago there were public hangings in this country and people certainly thought it was their right to watch and enjoy in fact , they even paid for seats to see public hangings , if they could afford to and as Mr has pointed out , er it 's not long ago er that bear baiting and badger baiting and cock fighting were seen as right and proper and no doubt spoken of as rights of free born Englishmen . |