Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 2 | ( Just think of the whispers sweeping around the office when Jeremy or Karen are seen in the car-park adding — or better still subtracting — a logo or two . ) |
| 3 | Another kind of insight to be added to this model can be gained from other people 's responses to the same , or similar places Dame Laura Knight RA , in her autobiography The Magic of a Line gives an insight into how the Malverns were seen in the 1930s . |
| 4 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 5 | It recommends that the government should seek compensation on the " polluter pays " principle — a highly unlikely eventuality , given the fact that Iraq is seen as the guilty party after it fired the Kuwaiti wells at the end of the Gulf War . |
| 6 | ‘ From the Scandinavian countries Britain is seen as the dirty man of the acid rain affair , ’ wrote the Guardian 's Anthony Tucker in September 1984 . |
| 7 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 8 | Saddam is seen as the Third World leader who dared to challenge the established order imposed by the West , and for that he must be punished and his country destroyed . |
| 9 | An attack on July 9 in the Andean community of Santa Barbara was seen as the clearest evidence yet of military involvement in extra-judicial killings , allegedly sanctioned by the Armed Forces Joint Command as part of " special intelligence operations " against the guerrillas . |
| 10 | The earliest displays of Etruscan and Greek art in Republican Rome were seen at the triumphal parades of loot and prisoners held in the centre of Rome to celebrate the victories of Roman consuls , senior magistrates who led the army into battle . |
| 11 | Father Gordy Carvaho is seen through the twisted window in the bell room of Kalaheo town 's Holy Cross Catholic church , which had its steeple devastated in the storms . |
| 12 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 13 | The condition of RENFE was seen by the new government as one of the most pressing problems that it had to face . |
| 14 | As late as mid-1947 a reunited Germany was seen by the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , as a greater danger to world peace than the Soviet Union ; and the Chiefs of Staff were assuming that Russia was unlikely to solve the problems of atomic weapon production before 1956 at the earliest . |
| 15 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 16 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |