Example sentences of "[not/n't] be seen [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . |
| 2 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 3 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 4 | Privatization should not be seen as the signal for the government to withdrawn from the economy entirely . |
| 5 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 6 | Anthropological analysis need not be seen as the attempt to discover the truth about primitive societies , but instead as the attempt to ‘ translate ’ ( or transform ) the utterances from one discursive context to another . |
| 7 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 8 | What the X-rays reveal , which can not be seen on the surface , are the soldered joins at the neck , handle and base as well as around the hole for the missing spout . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe Riven should not be seen at the feast tonight , ’ Murtach suggested . |
| 10 | Tall and strong , he was unusual in regularly bowling from wide of the crease , sometimes even so wide that his hand could not be seen against the sightscreen , which obviously caused the batsman trouble . |
| 11 | They can not be seen from the village , but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait . |
| 12 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 13 | The top part of the well section can not be seen from the entrance viewpoint as it lies behind the retaining wall and is covered by earth and vegetation . |
| 14 | The car could not be seen from the house because of the shelter of trees . |
| 15 | Although Poidevin may not be seen in the sky blue jumper of NSW or the gold of Australia , television viewers will be seeing plenty of Poidevin on-screen . |
| 16 | Thus only Taiwan from the Scots ' pool for the Murrayfield event will not be seen in the flesh , although Scotland 's sevens coaches , Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey , will doubtless seek videotape of the tournament in Sicily last summer from which the Taiwanese qualified . |
| 17 | It was placed so it could not be seen by the customer . |
| 18 | In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass , so at night , when he could not be seen by the signalman in Swithland box , he and his dog , who were inseparable , used to cross over the railway lines . |
| 19 | ‘ Industry should n't be seen as the problem but as a major part of the solution to environmental improvement , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Do you know , the cobblestones could n't be seen for the blood which swilled like water ? |
| 21 | When they arrived at her close he took her inside , along past the stairs to where it was dark and they could n't be seen by the rest of the close . |
| 22 | Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road . |
| 23 | You ca n't be seen from the road , is there anything else that might put you off ? |
| 24 | And as it could n't be seen from the cockpit there had been nothing to remind her that it was still open . |
| 25 | She fixed her bike among some bushes where it would n't be seen from the lane , and then ran along the grass-verge to the gap in the trees where the path began . |
| 26 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 27 | Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof . |
| 28 | You make sure he ca n't be seen from the letter flap , which is covered by a sealed box , then you look round the hall . |