Example sentences of "seen [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 3 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |
| 4 | Johnny Argie would n't have seen off the task force so bloody buggering easy if the old ‘ evenin' all ’ had been on the South Atlantic beat . |
| 5 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 6 | Such changes can be seen off the Kent coast with the cementing of the Isle of Thanet to the mainland and the silting up of the Wantsum Channel in post-Roman times . |
| 7 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 8 | ‘ If you do find the murderer , Robert , do n't stop him in his tracks until he has seen off the Colonel . ’ |
| 9 | Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season . |
| 10 | In 1771 he preached also at the flourishing society of Derryanville and at Kilmoriarty there was the largest congregation he had seen during the week . |
| 11 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 12 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 13 | It was Cam Robbie , whom I had last seen during the war twenty-five years earlier , when he was drummer of a rather tatty three-piece outfit in a night-club in George Street . |
| 14 | It is hoped that the new releases will continue the minor upturn in personal computer sales seen during the fourth quarter after the release of the PCS and M300 . |
| 15 | In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another . |
| 16 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 17 | The power of this engine can be seen during the decades following World War Two , when , despite a bipartisan political approach aimed at mitigation , class differences on many fronts remained as wide as ever . |
| 18 | One of the more sinister involves the Segale-Gale puppet , which is occasionally still seen during the funeral rites of Batak chieftains in north Sumatra . |
| 19 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 20 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly many of the pupil self-assessment schemes seen during the survey would prove very useful as a basis for gathering information for departmental profiles , and could therefore be extremely helpful in the development of records of personal achievement , which are due to be introduced in all schools in the early 1990s . |
| 22 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel we have a strong base for an ongoing quality improvement programme and with the commitment of all at Precision , positive results should be seen during the next 12 months . ’ |
| 24 | On transferring his official residence from Burgos to Madrid , in October , Franco " toured the Sierra de Guadarrama , looking for a place he had already seen during the war " in which he planned to locate his war memorial . |
| 25 | A relative tachycardia was seen during the procedure in many patients , and seemed to be a normal physiological response to the gastroscopy . |
| 26 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |
| 27 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 28 | The main effect is seen during the prepatent phase , when the larvae are in the mucosa . |
| 29 | He indicated to the 38-year-old cashier he had a gun , but no weapon was seen during the incident . |
| 30 | Um , he says , and goes on to explain that in Norway a small , useless knife sometimes seen about the person of hunters and campers who have little idea is known as a ‘ mouse castrator ’ . |