Example sentences of "have [been] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you have been seen doing circuit training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 2 | The current excavations are the first time that the theatre 's remains have been seen since that destruction . |
| 3 | Viewing the text in this way raises the question of the containment of transgression , since both play and pamphlet have been seen to move toward a closure which contains — even eradicates — their challenging elements . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most dramatic reactions against central state planning and a willingness to experiment with market forces have been seen in China , the USSR , Poland , and Hungary . |
| 5 | Bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins have been seen chasing off shark predators and even killing them , but packs of killer whales can encircle and trap a school of dolphins with a curtain of sound , before selecting a few hapless victims . |
| 6 | The obvious benefits have been seen in videotapes showing missiles and bombs hitting targets with extreme precision . |
| 7 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 8 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 9 | Other gelada males without harems have been seen to sit watching such a fight . |
| 10 | Girls have been seen in Italy , spinning with spindles over a balcony , while their sisters sat knitting below , which lends support to such a theory . |
| 11 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 12 | The windsurfing concept is not limited to use on the water and in recent years windsurfing sails have been seen on land , snow and ice . |
| 13 | These have been seen as appropriate developments from the teaching in the Bible . |
| 14 | Recent court cases where the victims of rape have been seen by judges as contributing to the crime through their ‘ negligence ’ — for example hitch-hiking alone — are not likely to act as an encouragement for other victims to report such offences . |
| 15 | These changes , implemented in 1984 , might in themselves have been seen as distinctly advantageous . |
| 16 | The corporations are imposed by central government and are given powers of land and development that have been seen as ‘ staggering ’ ( Cullingworth , 1985 , p. 282 ) . |
| 17 | Small parties are quite often noted and gatherings of 50 or more have been seen ; the largest in recent years was of 200 off Pett Level on 7 February 1965 . |
| 18 | In winter Great Crested Grebes are most common on the sea , particularly in Rye Bay , where up to 500 have been seen together ( 20 February 1949 ) . |
| 19 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 20 | But several parties have been seen , the largest of which was of 80 puffinus off Beachy head on 9 May 1975 . |
| 21 | Most are recorded at the coast , particularly in the western harbours and at Rye Harbour , but inland records are frequent from autumn to spring , and up to 65 have been seen at Chichester gravel pits . |
| 22 | Although up to eight have been seen in one year , Bitterns are not annual in Sussex . |
| 23 | There are a number of old records , mainly of single birds , although parties of about 10 birds have been seen twice ; des Forges and Harber give one or two for May , one for August , three for September , several for October , and two or three for November . |
| 24 | Otherwise fewer than 20 have been seen in any year since 1947 , except 1968 , when 34 passed east up the coast off Pevensey on 7 March , the largest party noted in the county since 1938 . |
| 25 | The severe winters of 1955/56 ( 166 recorded ) and 1962/63 ( 165 recorded ) are the only winters in which substantial numbers have been seen . |
| 26 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | Except in 1953 , when a party of 67 was seen , not more than about 25 birds have been seen in any year since 1947 , and it is of interest that influxes have not occurred in recent severe winters . |
| 28 | Most birds have been seen in December , January or February , but there is one record for October ( 30th , 1949 , Sidlesham ) , one for November , three for March , and one for April , of a bird which stayed at Pagham Harbour from 18 March to 3 April 1962 . |
| 29 | Birds have been seen in every month except June and August , and commonly make prolonged stays . |
| 30 | Most have been seen at Chichester gravel pits , but the species may occur on any stretch of fresh water . |