Example sentences of "[prep] be seen [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the platform becomes a place for people who want to be seen , those who believe that their own importance is such that the presentation of the programme is secondary to their right to be seen beside the programme participants . |
| 2 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 3 | Outside , the storm lashed the windows , there was nothing to be seen of the sea or the red roofs . |
| 4 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 5 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
| 6 | Teenagers seem particularly unwilling to be seen as the caring and bright people they often are . |
| 7 | Yeah but they basically just do n't want to lose out either way , I mean there was no reason for them to join originally but when events happen and they see the tide turning almost , you know get with the bandwagon , I mean they , they do n't want now to be seen as the minority and the ones under threat , so you go with the er majority , with the , the stronger force |
| 8 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 9 | But as attitudes changed labour came to be seen as the fight of the soldier of God through a hostile world , a fight in which the end justified the means . |
| 10 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 11 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 12 | In 1963 , when he was already Leader of the Labour Party , Harold Wilson promised that under a Labour government there would be ‘ Grammar School education for all ’ , and few in the Labour Party wanted to be seen as the enemy of the grammar schools . |
| 13 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 14 | Mr Wriglesworth added : ‘ I have no doubt that this election will come to be seen as the key to the recovery from the worst recession in the housing market since the Second World War . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , multi-party systems proliferated , though in some states the technique of organizing mass parties was beginning to be seen as the key to political power . |
| 16 | Given that the people had put him there , the Emperor envisaged it as his duty to be seen as the people 's servant — not just in the matter of governing but in his behaviour as a Sovereign who must associate the people with all aspects of his life . |
| 17 | Her foul-mouthed old mother was also to be seen at the school ‘ meetings ’ , shouting about the bottoms , while children hurled abuse and insult and accusations at one another . |
| 18 | When Steer died she is reported to have said , ‘ Now he and Sickert are gone I 'm the only artist left ’ ! 13 She wanted to be seen at the top where she clearly felt she belonged , doing the same as the best , as well as the best . |
| 19 | As in a good many other towns , the £3 — £9 category was smaller than in the local villages , but the most telling contrast is to be seen at the foot of the scale . |
| 20 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 21 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 22 | This conflict is clearly to be seen at the level of organized local politics ( chapter 1 ) , although the particular interests of the farming and landowning community add complexity to this . |
| 23 | All such styles were to be seen at the exhibition , but classically based designs predominated . |
| 24 | With superb collections of biblical archaeology and ancient artefacts on view at the Israel Museum and the oldest biblical manuscripts on show at the Shrine of the Book , a visitor might well ask : what then is there to be seen at the Bible Lands Museum ? |
| 25 | Throughout 1912 and 1913 the works of Picasso and Braque were to be seen at the Sturm Gallery in Berlin and in the avant-garde exhibitions in Cologne and Munich . |
| 26 | So far about 35 of the exclusive cars have been delivered by Jaguar , though few are expected to be seen on the road . |
| 27 | A relic from the Dreamtime , when giant goannas and kangaroos were to be seen on the horizon , the bunyip captures women and children to eat . |
| 28 | In many a country public house in Ayrshire and far beyond , a photograph of Baron of Buchlyvie is still to be seen on the wall . |
| 29 | Its styling was redolent of the golden age of motorcycling , from the long-legged , leather-and-chrome look of the bike to the distinctive swirling ‘ N ’ of the Norton logo ( still to be seen on the belt buckle of many a fashionable waist ) . |
| 30 | There was not a soul to be seen on the pavements . |