Example sentences of "[be] see [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies took the point and began beautifying the environs of their stations in the manner suggested by Mitchell , designing their station gardens to be seen to best advantage by both those arriving on the train and those waiting on the station . |
| 2 | This race is distinctly darker than our British bird and can be seen to good advantage on Sea-lion Island , the most southerly inhabited island in the Falklands . |
| 3 | This may actually be seen to better advantage in conversion to offices or even a house . |
| 4 | Can you find out about any others that can be seen at this time of year ? |
| 5 | She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist . |
| 6 | The adult worms , reddish in colour and 1.0 cm in length , can be seen on close inspection of the mucosal surface . |
| 7 | Without this the theory would find it difficult to explain why latent inhibition should be seen with inhibitory conditioning in the test phase . |
| 8 | The effect of using garnet as an inlay can be seen with particular brilliance in the jewellery purse components , shield ornaments and sword-fittings from the royal ship-burial at Sutton Hoo ( fig. 27 ) . |
| 9 | The United States ' open support for Israel was formalized in 1975 in a joint memorandum of understanding whereby ‘ threats to the security and sovereignty of Israel by a world power would be seen with special severity by the United States government . ’ |
| 10 | English , on the other hand , has to be able to distinguish dental from labiodental and alveolar places of articulation for to be distinct from and and for to be distinct from and ; this requires an additional feature that most languages do not need , and this could be seen as specific task for the learner of English . |
| 11 | They managed to convince the authorities that the dolphin kills were bad publicity , and that the release of some dolphins would be seen as partial atonement for the brutal killings which had already taken place . |
| 12 | It must also be seen as one interpretation of that theory : Marx 's extensive writings have been variously interpreted and , since his death , several schools of Marxism have developed . |
| 13 | Skinhead violence may be seen as one response to such changes in society . |
| 14 | W.J. White tells us that the ‘ decline of the embalming practice may be seen as one aspect of transitional funerary modes in fifteenth century England ’ . |
| 15 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 16 | The pleasure principle would then be seen as one form of the more fundamental Nirvana principle . |
| 17 | Other charity administrators say that Wolfson 's policy could help to legitimize the campaigns of anti-vivisectionists and could be seen as implicit criticism of the efforts of laboratory researchers . |
| 18 | At first sight this may be seen as careless farming with so much seed being wasted . |
| 19 | Despite what Mrs Sangster says , the jettisoning of the Sangster flagship will be seen as further evidence of her husband falling behind in racing 's power game , in which it is no longer enough just to be a run-of-the-mill millionaire . |
| 20 | The moves will be seen as further evidence of Mr De Klerk 's commitment to a political , rather than a military , solution to the country 's long-running crisis . |
| 21 | The moves will be seen as further evidence of Mr De Klerk 's commitment to a political , rather than a military , solution to the country 's long-running crisis . |
| 22 | On the contrary , ducal influence in East Anglia should probably be seen as another component of this influential court connection . |
| 23 | On the contrary , ducal influence in East Anglia should probably be seen as another component of this influential court connection . |
| 24 | Perhaps another reason is that the book may be seen as another step in the loss of accounting 's innocence . |
| 25 | She suggested that dependency on cigarettes should be seen as another form of drug addiction . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the ‘ family ’ in this form is still explicitly and implicitly upheld and supported by social policy and the Child Support Act can be seen as another example of this . |
| 27 | The turnabout is expected to be seen as disastrous news by purists — not only in the United States but here in Britain , because of the speed with which language fashions cross the Atlantic . |
| 28 | Thus , for over sixty years , there have been specially equipped and staffed clinics throughout the country , where patients can be seen without direct referral by their general practitioners . |
| 29 | Following the immense popularity of Goldman 's analysis of the problems facing RE in the 1960s ( Goldman 1964 ; 1965 ) , the emphasis on moral education was given a partner , that of life-themes — general topics which could be seen in greater depth through helping pupils to appreciate their symbolic use within religion . |
| 30 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |