Example sentences of "seen [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In years of glorious combat , Altrincham and Yeovil have seen off League opposition 15 times — and now they both have the chance to make it sweet 16 in this year 's second round . |
| 2 | A similar illness was seen during trench warfare in the American Civil War . |
| 3 | Spurting haemorrhage was seen during operation . |
| 4 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 5 | The prolonged duration of reflux seen during pH monitoring or after a meal in PSS could thus be related to defective clearance or to a greater quantity of reflux . |
| 6 | The results of his last two years ' work can be seen during Spring 1992 in two exhibitions : Gulf at the Imperial War Museum , and Not the Gulf at Waterman 's Arts Centre . |
| 7 | The results of his last two years ' work can be seen during Spring 1992 in two exhibitions : Gulf at the Imperial War Museum , and Not the Gulf at Waterman 's Arts Centre . |
| 8 | It was the first protest that the capital had seen about acid rain , an environmental issue which had stimulated political curiosity but very little action . |
| 9 | The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure . |
| 10 | The extension of ‘ privatization ’ could be seen as evidence for structural change — a ‘ rolling back ’ of the state . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that learner errors can be seen as evidence of learner achievement . |
| 12 | When , a few weeks later , Labour overturned a large Tory majority in a by-election at East Fulham , this was widely seen as evidence of the popularity of pacifism — despite the fact that Labour 's candidate , John Wilmot , had been more concerned to appeal to Liberal supporters of the League than to whatever sentiment may have existed in Fulham in favour of war resistance . |
| 13 | From outside the Carter camp it could be seen as evidence that the twosome are having trouble finding new songs . |
| 14 | If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment . |
| 15 | In the early days of Minoan studies , this widespread network of trading links was seen as evidence of a powerful Minoan navy , a wholesale conquest by sea and political subjugation of the tributary lands . |
| 16 | As in qualitative sociology , dialogue is seen as evidence and , therefore , to be presented and digested on its own . |
| 17 | While the legislation is clearly to be seen as evidence of a government 's entitlement to legislate in connection with a national responsibility , it is also interpretable as evidence of the government 's impatience with local authorities . |
| 18 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 19 | They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion . |
| 20 | All this suggests that the institutions of more stable family patterns should not be seen as evidence of the success of an effort at ‘ social control ’ . |
| 21 | Teaching English , being a metaphor for a policy of enforced cultural assimilation , dovetailed with the view expressed by a large proportion of heads and teachers that ‘ immigrant ’ cultures — the desire to hold on to which was seen as evidence of a ‘ ghetto mentality ’ — were an educational hindrance requiring vigilant exclusion from the culture of the school ( Brittan , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 23 | This could be seen as evidence that there is a level of automatic syntactic processing which is not always used in sentence comprehension . |
| 24 | This was seen as evidence of the government 's continued commitment to economic re-structuring and of its need to have an experienced negotiator to deal with the mounting foreign debt [ see pp. 37216-17 ] . |
| 25 | The projected surplus of AD13,500 million was seen as evidence of an upturn in the economy . |
| 26 | The resignation of Labour Minister Erick Thompson Pineres in October [ see p. 37770 ] was seen as evidence of a rift in the Cabinet over the severity of the austerity programme . |
| 27 | This provoked a public outcry [ see p. 37913 ] and was widely seen as evidence of his autocratic style of government , already reflected in his combining the presidency with the chairmanship of the ruling Peronist party [ see p. 37651 ] . |
| 28 | Although this could be seen as evidence that subjective risk was not present for this subject , it could equally be regarded as a self presentational bias on the part of the subject who may have felt that feeling risk would imply dangerous driving . |
| 29 | The figures were seen as evidence that both the dollar and US interest rates should drop to correct the huge trade imbalance which was projected at a record level of about $165 billion for the year . |
| 30 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |