Example sentences of "they [modal v] be see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 4 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 5 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 6 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 7 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 8 | They can be seen at the end of the Walled Garden . |
| 9 | If , indeed , such principles are a feature of children 's attempts to understand adult language , it remains to be seen whether they can be seen as the outcome of earlier developmental processes or , as seems more likely , innate abilities and therefore features of Chomsky 's LAD . |
| 10 | In fact they can be seen as the difficulties that are faced with young people generally : how far should they be allowed ( encouraged ? ) to take risks and learn for themselves and how far should they be guided by those who ‘ know best ’ ? |
| 11 | One is of a parrot , the other of an elephant dancing on a drum alongside an enormous red heart , and they can be seen on the attic mantlepiece , next to the photograph of Arthur Balfour . |
| 12 | They can be seen on the Oracle teletext system . |
| 13 | In some species they can be seen through the skin . |
| 14 | They can be seen until the middle of next month . |
| 15 | Transparent fabrics require neat seams as they can be seen from the right side . |
| 16 | They can be seen in the centrality of the notion of traditions of behaviour in conservative thought as contrasted with ( pace Hayek ) the more rationalistic temperament of liberalism . |
| 17 | They can be seen in the importance to conservatives of the notion of authority , a notion which in liberal thought is presented less positively and often as a potential threat to liberty . |
| 18 | It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context . |
| 19 | So , in effect , the SAM works by taking an enormous number of individual measurements of acoustic reflectivity and converting them to equivalent light and dark dots on a TV screen where they can be seen by the human eye . |