Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Ulcers are not usually seen in one particular specialist department in most hospitals .
7 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 .
8 This means that its touring shows are normally only seen in secondary schools .
9 Whooper Swans are most usually seen in the permanent grasslands of the river valleys and levels or on reservoirs and estuaries .
10 ‘ 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 .
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