Example sentences of "could be see [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last a rider could be seen across the fields . |
| 2 | The wall was built by the water authorities to secure the catchment area of the splendid Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs , and for many years marked the route of the annual Mourne Wall Walk , which followed the wall for much of its 22 mile circuit and was the only occasion when walkers could be seen on the hills en masse . |
| 3 | Similar patterns of dispersal could be seen on the terraces themselves , with S3 always standing further back than the rest . |
| 4 | The haircut would have won the approval of an army officer and similar clothes could be seen in the windows of men 's outfitters in any high street , but the body inside them was unmistakably female . |
| 5 | The kingdom of God , he said , could be seen in the hearts of all who love and obey God now . |
| 6 | The circle could be seen in the discs of sun and moon and their related haloes and rainbows . |
| 7 | Increasingly Moran could be seen in the fields staring idly at some task he should be completing . |
| 8 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |
| 9 | But the fact is that there might be persons eager to oppose the operation of the trust , and vested interests in declaring that no legal intention could be seen in the words used by the testator . |
| 10 | The watchfires of one force could be seen by the pickets of the other . |