Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] see [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Einzig was so frequently seen in Minton 's company that to outsiders it seemed as if she became his other half . |
| 2 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 3 | Seventeenth-century Russia , poor , remote , deeply xenophobic , was not generally seen as part of the European political system at all . |
| 4 | Last year Eyre was once more seen on television , quizzing representatives of ‘ the major league ’ of world religions — a Jew , a Muslim , a Buddhist , a Christian and a Hindu — about matters of spiritual import . |
| 5 | Earlier jazz was also often seen in terms of a ‘ defence of individualism ’ ( spontaneity self-expression , and so on ) . |