Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 2 | The Dutch origins are most clearly seen in the accommodation . |
| 3 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 4 | Commissioning research on the use of deprivation indices in allocating formulas is therefore often seen as a means of arguing more effectively for a bigger share . |
| 5 | Multiple bands were also clearly seen in orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and the old world monkey Ceropithecus aethiops , but not in more distantly related species , such as pig or cow , where only a single hybridising band is seen . |
| 6 | The development of organised diplomatic archives and of foreign office libraries is perhaps best seen in Britain . |
| 7 | Written by John Martin Robinson , it traces the progress of the Temple family , whose political ideas and ambitions are so clearly seen in the gardens and buildings they created at Stowe . |
| 8 | Police numbers and resources are no longer seen as a vade-mecum by the police or the Government ( as Hurd , for example , made clear in his speech to the Police Foundation Conference in Oxford on 11 April 1988 ) — hardly surprising after nine ‘ wasted ’ years . |
| 9 | According to UN officials , submissions by 121 governments to the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) preparatory committee show that while environmental awareness has increased over the years , problems are also increasingly seen in North-South terms . |
| 10 | Ulcers are not usually seen in one particular specialist department in most hospitals . |
| 11 | In a buoyant market , with deals being done left , right and centre , chartered surveyors were too often seen as ‘ brokers ’ . |
| 12 | Although frank aphasic symptoms are only rarely seen after lesions of the right hemisphere , or even after total right hemispherectomy ( Damasio , Almeida and Damasio , 1975 ; Smith , 1974 ) in patients with left hemisphere specialisation for language , careful studies are now pointing to certain linguistic impairments in association with right-sided brain damage . |
| 13 | This means that its touring shows are normally only seen in secondary schools . |
| 14 | Whooper Swans are most usually seen in the permanent grasslands of the river valleys and levels or on reservoirs and estuaries . |
| 15 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 16 | Conversely , CD68 + L1 - macrophages abounded in the dome area ( Fig 2B and Table IV ) , and such large cells were also frequently seen in the germinal centres where they apparently represented tingible body macrophages . |