Example sentences of "[be] see [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist . |
| 3 | The adult worms , reddish in colour and 1.0 cm in length , can be seen on close inspection of the mucosal surface . |
| 4 | Without this the theory would find it difficult to explain why latent inhibition should be seen with inhibitory conditioning in the test phase . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At first sight this may be seen as careless farming with so much seed being wasted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It will also have to be seen in close relationship with other aspects of rural society and the economy , as well as with the overall social and economic structures at national and European levels . |
| 14 | Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison . |
| 15 | Individuals go to bed later or earlier than average on certain occasions , as can be seen by close inspection of Fig. 2.2 . |