Example sentences of "[been] see [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
2 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
3 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
4 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
5 | The intent behind these changes within the Labour Party constitution spills over to pose a challenge to the kind of democracy that has been seen as the essential hallmark of the liberal-democratic British constitution . |
6 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
7 | Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city . |
8 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |
9 | Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash . |
10 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |
11 | Nothing like their earthworks had been seen since the earlier Iron Age of pre-Roman times . |
12 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
13 | Nothing much has been seen of the civilian population since we entered the village on the 6th June . |
14 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
15 | Philip Drew had also been seen at the relevant time by a stagehand . |
16 | Several people have told me he 's been seen at the Lebanese Embassy . ’ |
17 | The exhibition has previously been seen at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf and is now at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart until 2 August . |
18 | No global system of oceanic ridges , subduction troughs and mountain ranges at continental borders has been seen at the 30-km resolution achieved by the Orbiter . |
19 | Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Allied side hitherto . |
20 | It will have been seen from the above summary that , on its face , the legislation is of unlimited territorial scope . |
21 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
22 | Young people do not come readily with their enquiries to the CAB , as has been seen in the previous chapter . |
23 | For these reasons , specialist services have developed at a fast pace within the CAD , as has been seen in the previous chapter . |
24 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
25 | We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public . |