Example sentences of "[prep] be seen [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To his credit , or possibly his ignorance , Michael then immediately filmed the next scene , where he had to be seen on the underside of a fire engine 's turntable ladder twenty feet up in the air , being lowered to the ground . |
| 32 | He is nowhere to be seen on the Thorsvoe , nor at Lyness in Hoy , site of an impressive collection of artefacts tracing Scapa Flow 's history as a naval base . |
| 33 | But they are not only to be seen on the street but within the mind 's eye itself : the mental set has changed in the post-1960 years of unprecedented exposure to visual imagery . |
| 34 | Paris auctioneer Jean-Louis Picard is selling the most important collection of French Charles X Restoration furniture and art objects to be seen on the market since the Castille Collection sold two years ago . |
| 35 | There is nothing to be seen on the spot but bare earth . |
| 36 | It 's one thing to be seen on the hill , but quite another to be seen and have other climbers throw rocks at you . |
| 37 | The common message , from many of the women or members of ethnic communities we spoke to , was , their need to be seen on the television screen or heard on the radio . |
| 38 | The standing work of the forward channel , constructed of hard blue brick , is still to be seen on the site . |
| 39 | A new breed of men had emerged from the vague grey ranks of the judiciary to stamp themselves on the nation 's consciousness : the glamorous investigating magistrates and Public Prosecutors who were to be seen on the news every evening leading the fight against political violence and organized crime . |
| 40 | Even in summer there may be smudges of by now off-white snow or icc to be seen on the slopes round about . |
| 41 | Regular faces that greet you in the banks , shops and offices in Funchal are to be seen on the eight-kilometre long beach of white sand . |
| 42 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 43 | They are all to be seen with the Empress in the Winterhalter portrait . |
| 44 | A new ( wooden ) professional 's shop was built nearer the first tee and is still to be seen above the Secretary 's office , although now in a poor state of repair and its demolition likely . |
| 45 | These fluctuations are responsible for the ‘ spoke-like ’ pattern of bright and dark patches to be seen within the polygons of Fig. 22.6 , although , because of the unsteadiness , the behaviour is not fully illustrated by a single picture of this sort . |
| 46 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a gentleman 's country retreat on the Isle of Wight engagingly illustrates this coexistence : the south-east front ( Fig. 8a ) — to be seen against the harbour , a view that is socialized by boats and buildings — is Grecian in style and covered in stucco ; while the north-west front ( Fig. 8b ) , against a natural background , is ‘ of Monastic character ’ and built in local stone . |
| 47 | In fact the great universal struggle for human rights is to be seen against the background of human suffering brought about by excessive state power , its abuses and corruption . |
| 48 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 49 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 50 | The third was tall enough to be seen from the sea , both east and west of the island . |
| 51 | Some would seem to be associated with duns , there being three in the Dun Finn area , a large one at Dun Bhoreraig , some to be seen from the fort in the field below the steep rock face of Dun Nosbridge , and one of fifteen feet across at Trudernish . |
| 52 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 53 | Since action implies narrative , such figures are generally designed primarily for a profile view ( cf. above , p. 14 ) , while the ‘ repose-statue ’ ( the Kritian boy , Euenor 's Athena and their successors ) is meant to be seen from the front , like kouros and kore . |
| 54 | To be seen from the stage on the O.P. side , a person would have to stand very close to the edge of the set . |
| 55 | One of the roots of the problem was the sharp cutback of financial resources provided by the centre , but this needs to be seen alongside the emergence of strongly ideological politics at both central and local levels . |
| 56 | In the end Seth killed Apophis , whose blood was thought to be seen in the red or pink tint of the morning and evening sky . |
| 57 | In this in-situ collapse/consolidation test , water is added to the sample under constant load , and the deformation is read from the dial gauges to be seen in the middle of the picture . |
| 58 | The university buildings were themselves instructive , incorporating all the ‘ orders to be seen in the ruins of Greece and Italy ’ as well as English mediaeval styles . |
| 59 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 60 | Three significant things are to be seen in the story . |