Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 2 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 3 | Intellectuals of the age believed in parliamentary government , not a democratic system ; in liberty , not popular government ; and the spectre of social and economic equality itself was seen as the dark side of the claim for adult suffrage . |
| 4 | In our series , fundic argyrophil cell tumours developed in five of 17 patients with MEN 1 while none was seen in the 31 patients with sporadic Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , even when argyrophil cell hyperplasia was as marked as in some patients with tumours . |
| 5 | It was seen as the key element in the proposed transformation of the nation . |
| 6 | As it happened , re-emigration was a non-starter , but it remained government policy and , until the war , it was seen as the only long-term solution to the refugee problem . |
| 7 | In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) . |
| 8 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 9 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 10 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 11 | is Above all , he was seen by the young Nietzsche as the proponent of a total philosophy , a vision of life that called for a personal , not merely an intellectual , commitment — a vision that stimulated , and even promised to satisfy , the yearning to be a personal whole attuned to the ultimate values , or non-values , of life . |
| 12 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 13 | His ageing government showed insufficient energy in pursuing the effort of World War II and its prestige and confidence were undermined by the German air raids in April–May 1941 , indecision over conscription , the corruption of Belfast Corporation , what was seen as the weak and complacent handling of industrial relations , and confused planning for the post-war world . |
| 14 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 15 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |