Example sentences of "can [be] see [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place can be seen for miles in daylight . ’ |
| 2 | Food and Drink can be seen on Tuesdays at 8.30pm on BBC2 |
| 3 | Both these methods leave very characteristic helical seams which can be seen on examples of wires made by the two methods in Figure 8.6a and b , taken from genuine antiquities . |
| 4 | Patients can be seen at times of their choosing by nursing staff , which may be early morning before school or work , late evening or at weekends . |
| 5 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 6 | Many norms can be seen as reflections of values . |
| 7 | Thus the various parts of the superstructure can be seen as instruments of ruling class domination and as mechanisms for the oppression of the subject class . |
| 8 | As illustrations , therefore , teaching materials can be seen as stimulants of enquiry calling for appraisal as a prerequisite for application ; as prescriptions , they call for application without the requirement of appraisal , and so constrain the users into conformity . |
| 9 | Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF . |
| 10 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 11 | Profiles of Development and other material based on the same principles can be seen as redefinitions of the National Curriculum . |
| 12 | A variety of norms can be seen as expressions of a single value . |
| 13 | Therefore the variety of norms concerned with the health and safety of members of society can be seen as expressions of the value placed on human life . |
| 14 | Beliefs which state that systems of social stratification are based on biological inequalities can be seen as rationalizations for those systems . |
| 15 | These stages can be seen as centres of psychic concentration , phases of emphasis that , in ‘ normal ’ development , are passed through as we progress to being mature , integrated people . |
| 16 | They may be seen as clauses of allographs , as phonemes can be seen as classes of allophones . |
| 17 | The character or reputation a person has amongst his fellows is partly a product of his own efforts at self-presentation , partly an ascription to him by others on the basis of their readings of his life performances , partly in situations which can be seen as occasions of hazard . |
| 18 | These subtler bodies , variously named etheric , astral and so on , can be seen by sensitives as an aura around the physical body . |
| 19 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 20 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 21 | It was similar in the smaller towns , as can be seen from examples in Sussex and Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 23 | This insecurity , along with a felt need for some stable focus of emotional security , can be seen in responses to the sentence-completion test item ‘ more than anything else he/she worries about … ’ |
| 24 | Relapse can be seen in changes of mood before it leads back to use of the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 25 | The same kinds of effect can be seen in studies of families with disabled young adults ( Hirst , 1984 ) and a disabled spouse ( Martin and White , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Mandi , who has signed with Spennymoor agents AIR , can be seen in clubs around the area . |
| 27 | In the Jura the Tithonian can be seen in places to be a coral reef limestone , but usually the corals have been obliterated by dolomitisation and dedolomitisation as is commonly the fate of reefs . |
| 28 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |
| 29 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
| 30 | The idea that the curriculum can be seen in terms of the society or culture of which it is a part is both ancient and recent . |