Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] seen [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the County Planning Committee considered the western relief road on the third of March nineteen ninety two , they resolved that a western relief road for Harrogate was environmentally unacceptable , that the Harrogate and Knaresborough southern bypass used in conjunction with the proposed A one motorway should be seen as the preferred route for north bound traffic originating to the south of Harrogate , and that the ultimate selection and implementation of a relief road for Harrogate and Knaresborough should be part of a package of measures for solving the problem of urban congestion and improving the quality of the urban environment . |
| 2 | We should ask if it is product ( end ) or problem ( origin ) that should be seen as the generic base of what design is ' — not as a challenge to construct a dialectical , interactionist model of design activity , which takes each of these moments seriously as a necessary moment or characteristic of " what design is " , but as an affront to rationalism . |
| 3 | There was no point in delay , nor any in waiting until darkness ; the relief should be seen by the English to be effected and effective . |
| 4 | The use of any database should be seen within the overall pattern of information skills development within the school . |
| 5 | The construction of 28 new towns after 1946 , housing more than 1.1 million people by 1987 ( Potter , 1987 ) , must be seen as the major positive achievement of town and country planning in the UK . |
| 6 | The view of the early church , which Aulén insists must be seen as the classic theory , he calls the ‘ dramatic ’ . |
| 7 | This introspection must be seen as the opposite pole to Canova 's universalism and provides new insights into the terms ‘ sensuous ’ and the ‘ sensual ’ today . |
| 8 | It must be seen against the social background of early Anglo-Saxon society in the seventh century . |
| 9 | If Chichester Cathedral represents the peak of secular church activity it must be seen against the whole range of minor church building which accompanied the extension of the parish system . |
| 10 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 11 | To be given tax free , such allowances must be seen by the Inland Revenue as being reasonable in amount and properly controlled . |
| 12 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 13 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 14 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 15 | Thus something of the effect of using " the " with postgraduate study might be seen in the following ( still slightly unidiomatic ) example : Of the two phases of study which I want to pursue , I want to undertake the postgraduate study in Britain and the undergraduate study in America . |
| 16 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 17 | The bomb-bursts could be seen through the huge pall of smoke and dust that hung over the city . |
| 18 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 19 | Many features distinguish Wilson & Glick kitchens from others in a similar price bracket , making them exceptionally good value for money , as could be seen at the Ideal Home Exhibition which was even more successful ‘ the second time around ’ . |
| 20 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 21 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 22 | One was in the field of biogeography , where the migration of small populations to new areas could be seen as the chief cause of the branchings in the tree of life . |
| 23 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 24 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 25 | The contradiction between the two could be seen in the nationalist movements which paved the way for independence , in which there was a constant tension between the attempt to build a genuine nationalist movement and the tendency for support to be delivered on a tribal basis . |
| 26 | A simple example of the effect of this fall in coal prices could be seen in the changing views on the conclusions of Sir Frank Layfield , the Sizewell Inquiry Inspector . |
| 27 | Thus , some of the best examples of British painting could be seen in the National Gallery and the Modern Art Museum , while the less important , but , for some , equally interesting , would have ample space of their own . |
| 28 | And as Morse left the pathology block , a quiet little smile of confidence could be seen around the chief inspector 's lips . |
| 29 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 30 | Even though the morning 's inclement weather prevented some aircraft from reaching Rendcomb , an interesting selection of display and visiting aircraft could be seen by the undaunted crown that turned up during the awful morning . |