Example sentences of "[adv] often see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 2 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 3 | Plus the plain tile eave coursing so often seen with pantile roofs in the North East . |
| 4 | It is unfortunate , however , that the ‘ crisis ’ is so often seen in negative terms . |
| 5 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 6 | A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 7 | My talk , if you so wish to interpret it , is a reaction to the somewhat sterile presentation of the language which I so often see in textbooks and curriculum documents . |
| 8 | Secrecy can be damaging in that : ( a ) the sources of power and influence are obscured ; ( b ) public servants are not properly accountable ; ( c ) public participation is seriously hampered ; ( d ) justice is not often seen to be done ; ( e ) inefficiency and error are made more likely . |
| 9 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 10 | They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage . |
| 11 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 12 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 13 | The scaup in flight is almost identical but although scaups are common enough around the coast they are exclusively winter visitors and not often seen on inland waters . |
| 14 | Above : The Silver Scat , Selenotoca multifasciata is not often seen in shops . |
| 15 | The collection was formed by the late shopping-centre magnate Sir Harold ( later Lord ) Samuel who , on the advice of dealer Edward Speelman , amassed mainly small , highly finished cabinet pictures on copper or panel that were very much to the taste of eighteenth-century collectors but are not often seen in American collections : notably , five town-views by Jan van der Heyden ; a ‘ Winter Landscape with Skaters ’ by Adriaen van de Velde , and a seven-by-nine inch masterpiece by Jan Steen of a couple sleeping at a table beneath an arbour . |
| 16 | It is turned in this action towards the meagre amount of light , light which has a density and texture not often seen in real life , created by filling the air with smoke and piercing it with tungsten light . |
| 17 | The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card . |
| 18 | He showed some incredible coloured slides giving close-up detail of petal formation and patterns not often seen by the naked eye . |
| 19 | The newt , although fairly common in English ponds , is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature . |
| 20 | The British Standards Institution , Kitemark , more often seen on goods like washing machines and fridges , could soon be appearing on solicitor 's headed notepaper . |
| 21 | Fortunately for him , he is more often seen as the ‘ little boy lost ’ ( which is often just how he feels , so his suffering is considerable ) , for apart from his obvious grief and loneliness , who now will cook his meals and iron his shirts ? |
| 22 | However , the returned veteran was more often seen as the protagonist in a revenge story , typically involving drugs , crime and violence . |
| 23 | Atrophic gastritis and superficial gastritis were more often seen in the alcoholic patients , which accounted for the hypochlorhydria seen in a group of these patients . |
| 24 | In the heart , clinically significant cardiac amyloid with congestive heart failure is more likely in AL than in AA , because extensive amyloid interstitial infiltration in the myocardium is more often seen in AL than in AA . |
| 25 | … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days . |
| 26 | Earlier jazz was also often seen in terms of a ‘ defence of individualism ’ ( spontaneity self-expression , and so on ) . |
| 27 | The struggle , however , was most often seen as a defence of traditional liberties , not of ‘ liberty ’ itself . |
| 28 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 29 | The next type of cable pattern is probably most often seen on classic cricket sweaters and if you have sportsmen in your family they will be delighted to receive garments with cables in their club colours . |
| 30 | They can be found on the shaft of the penis and on the glans , but their predilection for a damp and warm environment makes them most often seen under the foreskin . |