Example sentences of "[been] see [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 2 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 3 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 4 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 5 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |
| 6 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 7 | Utopian ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of Marxist theory . |
| 8 | Ruling class ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of functionalist theory . |
| 9 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 10 | Thus her face had been seen beyond the borders of her home , classroom or relatives ' houses . |
| 11 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 12 | Long live prostitution — the like of which has not been seen since the downfall of Rome … ’ |
| 13 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
| 14 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 15 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 16 | I did n't dare show a light — though I doubt whether a light could have been seen from the shore through the mist , and there was probably no one to see it — but I knew where things were . |
| 17 | They can extend the information given in the text , as has been seen from the discussion of the picture-book above . |
| 18 | In its guidelines on the DMS and other ‘ courses for managers ’ issued in 1979 the Council defined access to the Diploma — which had been seen from the outset as a postgraduate award — in terms of flexible entry : in addition to the broad treatment of management studies and its supporting disciplines it incorporated |
| 19 | It is only the second time this century that a school of sperm whales has been seen in the waters around Orkney . |
| 20 | He has not been seen in the Chamber throughout the debate , and now he comes in shouting ’ Awful ! ’ |
| 21 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 22 | In the late 1930s a new pattern of earlier marriage began to emerge which had not been seen in the West for centuries . |
| 23 | Madhuri has often been seen in the company of the popular actor Sanjay Dutt . |
| 24 | This has already been seen in the discussion of example [ 13 ] above . |
| 25 | This is very much in keeping moreover with the nature of comparative clauses , since , as has been seen in the discussion of need and dare , they contain an inherent non-assertiveness . |
| 26 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 27 | They had all been seen in the vicinity of the turnpike and the nearby Duncan Woods . |
| 28 | This nightmare of processing phantoms reminds us of the procession of daemons from Phaistos , which could have been seen in the sort of opium trance de Quincey described . |
| 29 | Nor was this a peculiarly Frankish problem : similar conflict had already been seen in the hostility between Sigistrix and Sigismund 's second wife , in the kingdom of the Burgundians . |
| 30 | This partial detachment from natural appearances , which has already been seen in the landscapes of Picasso and Braque of 1908 , is one of the factors that distinguish most clearly their approach from that of Cézanne and other nineteenth-century artists , and even from the Fauves , whose vision , with the occasional exception of Matisse , despite the liberties they took with their subjects , was still conditioned by their instantaneous reactions to their surroundings . |