Example sentences of "be seen [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires . |
| 2 | Black kites can still be seen soaring between the sky-scrapers . |
| 3 | The tiny fry ( about 1.5mm ) will be seen darting around the container and they can be removed by using a pipette or a teaspoon . |
| 4 | Twenty four hours after spawning , the eggs will hatch , and the minute fry can be seen wriggling on the bottom of the tank under the spawning mops . |
| 5 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Attendance at external courses must be justified against training objectives or be seen to acquire for the county library some new or up-date skill/ knowledge/experience which would otherwise be a noticeable gap ’ . |
| 7 | To identify people by name can be seen to detract from the objectivity of the report . |
| 8 | This relatively explicit form can be seen to modulate into the process of association of particular works with particular powerful names : the patron , in effect , as dedicatee . |
| 9 | Even when hunched on the top step , no chink can be seen leaking around the doorframe , because it is perfectly insulated with foam plastic strip . |
| 10 | In fact there is a direct continuation inland for several miles of the algal mat that can be seen forming on the beach at the present day . |
| 11 | They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank . |
| 12 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 13 | Suddenly , at about 3 o'clock , a pall of thick black smoke could be seen rising from the town and shortly afterwards came flames and then loud crackling was heard . |
| 14 | Especially notable is the approach view from the road bridge , where the vast pile can be seen rising from the banks of the great river . |
| 15 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 16 | The china souvenirs can be seen displayed in the background . |
| 17 | The water surface then acts as an entrapping wall , although individual fish will often be seen flying through the air trying to avoid capture . |
| 18 | Now they can be seen strolling around the city alongside their mahouts or drivers , or earning their living as tourist attractions , tethered to hotel lawns and bars . |
| 19 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 20 | The emblem of the Parlers , a runic square , can be seen carved in the base . |
| 21 | Groups of Muslim demonstrators retaliated by attacking the nearby Holiday Inn with small arms and grenades in an effort to dislodge several snipers who could be seen firing from the hotel 's upper floors . |
| 22 | The justification for doing the work might be seen to lie in the material benefits it produced . |
| 23 | ‘ On that bloody Russian rust bucket over there , ’ He waved his hand towards the ship 's superstructure which could be seen towering over the dock offices . |
| 24 | They are inconspicuous during the day ( though occasionally a couple of slender arms will be seen waving from the base of a rock ) but are very useful as scavengers . |
| 25 | For all their efforts to uncover trends that would serve to unify the history of life on earth , the vast majority were unwilling to explain the trends as the result of natural processes that could be seen operating in the world today . |
| 26 | The bridle path , which Theodora and Cranmer had traversed yesterday morning , could clearly be seen meandering from the back of the stable between the estuary and the wall of Dersingham Park . |
| 27 | They could be seen flinching at the hammering of fists against the sides of the buses . |
| 28 | As they stepped on to the landing he signalled her to go ahead while he hung back so they should not be seen arriving in the newsroom together . |
| 29 | It distressed her that her vicar should be seen charging through the town with his underpants showing through his trousers . |
| 30 | Large additional costs could be seen arising from the Nassau Agreement on British participation in the American-sponsored NATO Multilateral Force as part of the quid pro quo for Polaris . |