Example sentences of "[adj] [be] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the pages of the Demoiselles sketchbooks show single figures in upright , hieratic stances , their limbs disposed symmetrically ; some are seen frontally , others from the back ; sketchy ghosts and erasures unite backviews with the more definitive frontal poses and vice versa . |
| 2 | This is seen both as a device for testing the seriousness of the teacher and thus his/her attitudes to the pupils themselves , and as a retributive routine for dealing in an orderly fashion with what they construe as insulting or demeaning . |
| 3 | But it is vital that this is seen not as legitimizing self-centredness , introspection or social irresponsibility , but as a means to ever deeper exploration of life in its totality . |
| 4 | This is seen nowhere more clearly than in the Latin American Communist parties which ’ prefer systematically an alliance with a strong personality ( not to speak of a strongman ) rather than with an organised political party which could propose or , worse , impose independent tactics and a different and permanent leadership upon the whole alliance' ( Caballero : 1986 , p. 109 ) . |
| 5 | This is seen particularly in the USA , where the very large domestic market has provided a safe haven for many companies of substantial size . |
| 6 | This is seen most clearly in the song of Eliot 's Blackshirts , whose bitter irony should be set against remarks concerning the undesirability of too many free-thinking Jews in After Strange Gods . |
| 7 | This is seen most clearly in libraries whose function is educational ( in the broadest sense ) . |
| 8 | The reverse pattern to this is seen where the barnacles are 5. balanoides and it is they that are sometimes restricted to a high-level band ( Plate la ) . |
| 9 | Now , all of this is seen as bad enough , but in our developing multi-party system they see less prospect of single parties having absolute majorities in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |
| 11 | This was seen tentatively in terms of reduced interference by the left hemisphere in right hemisphere speech mechanisms . |
| 12 | Another was seen later with a breast wound . |
| 13 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |
| 14 | Moreover , there was nothing egalitarian about the set-up and there was no expectation that the state would do much and interfere extensively in the " private " sphere of power and economic arrangements : these were seen as best left to the unseen hand of " impersonal " market forces . |
| 15 | Whatever social and political abuses Herod might perpetrate , these were seen merely as symptoms of a much more profound dilemma — the dilemma of a people who had been abandoned by their God . |
| 16 | Most birds are seen singly , but two together are not very unusual , and three were seen together at Weir Wood Reservoir on 30 August 1976 . |
| 17 | Unfortunately that story continues and ninety two ninety three is seeing even more of our colleagues made redundant , not in hundreds but in thousands . |
| 18 | He has had the opportunity to reproduce 430 of the 500 drawings which originally constituted that collection and to mount a touring exhibition over three years : for the first , and probably only time therefore , they will all be seen together right across the world . |
| 19 | No 92032 is seen here at Crewe in September 1989 . |
| 20 | The latter is seen more clearly in March 1264 when Roger represented Henry III in the abortive negotiations before the final outbreak of hostilities . |
| 21 | Much more difficult is to see how B 's response in ( ii ) can be understood as a request refusal , for there is no overt relation at all between its semantic content and that function . |
| 22 | Standard 147 is seen there in 1962 . |
| 23 | The largest concentration occurs fairly consistently in Chichester Harbour , where flocks of 40 to 60 birds have been annual since 1947 ; 130 were seen there on 18 December 1954 , the largest flock yet noted in the county , and there were 97 on 4 December 1971 . |
| 24 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 25 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 26 | Most are seen singly or in twos and threes , but up to 10 have been recorded together and , in 1963 a party of 50 was seen at Burpham on 30 January , and another , which finally totalled 29 , was present at Weir Wood Reservoir in March . |
| 27 | She had to admit later , on renewing her lipstick in the Ladies ' , that it was fun being seen out with such a charismatic man . |
| 28 | Despite the agonies of withdrawing from Empire and various undulations in economic performance , the decade of the 1950s was seen more than anything as " an age of affluence . " |