Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , no effects were seen on prostacyclin production acutely after the start of insulin treatment .
2 No changes between groups were seen at day 3 , although levels decreased by about sixfold in all groups between days 3 and 7 ( Fig 7 ) .
3 Patients were seen at routine clinic follow up and the reasons for surveillance explained .
4 He could say sentences which would have been preposterous if they were seen as rhetoric but which he could carry because they were delivered with uproarious humour — ‘ Liberalism prolonged one 's youth , Liberalism did not decay ’ .
5 Beset by relative impotence in the international arena only rarely could abolitionists provide sustenance from ‘ agitation ’ for antislavery diplomacy or politics as when the 1814 petitions were seen as support for Castlereagh 's negotiations on suppressing the transatlantic slave trade at the peace congress .
6 The figures were seen as evidence that both the dollar and US interest rates should drop to correct the huge trade imbalance which was projected at a record level of about $165 billion for the year .
7 The individual organism came first in the biologist 's consciousness , while the replicators — now known as genes — were seen as part of the machinery used by individual organisms .
8 The 1989 NHS Reforms were greeted with great hostility by much of the medical profession , partly because they were seen as part of possible moves towards dismantling the NHS , but also because of the changed emphasis brought about by the consideration of terms such as : ‘ efficiency ’ , ‘ internal market ’ , and ‘ payment by results ’ in areas where the role of the market had previously been much less prominent .
9 These changes were seen as part of a comprehensive strategy to foster exchange rate cohesion .
10 There was , however , overlap between the Stanley connection and the royal household , which confirms that the Stanleys were seen as part of the royal affinity rather than as part of Gloucester 's .
11 They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator .
12 One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output .
13 There was , however , overlap between the Stanley connection and the royal household , which confirms that the Stanleys were seen as part of the royal affinity rather than as part of Gloucester 's .
14 No hybridisation signals were seen over control sections .
15 The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City .
16 Increased reactive oxygen species values in the inflamed colonic mucosa in rats were seen by chemiluminescence .
17 The couple were crossing Park Vale Road in the town on their way home when they were seen by car driver David Buxton , of Brattenham Avenue , Easterside , Middlesbrough .
18 As in vehicle pretreated animals , surface cells with lamellipodia and neck cells with mitosis were seen in capsaicin pretreated rats .
19 Both aspects were seen in case no 2 .
20 There were passing references to social services as investment but primarily they were seen in consumption terms .
21 These were introduced in Section 1.4 and typical relations were seen in Figure 1.8 .
22 All the patients were seen in consultation and laboratory tests performed at the end of the presently reported follow up .
23 I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend .
24 The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role .
25 At this time there was evidence of increasing irritation locally over what was seen as interference by central government .
26 This was seen as victimisation of intellectuals , already suffering in the changed economic circumstances of modern China .
27 Mugabe 's statement on March 4 , 1990 , that " all progressive forces " should prepare for negotiations with the apartheid regime in spite of the continuation of the armed struggle was seen as criticism of the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) with which , rather than the ANC , ZANU had traditionally been aligned .
28 And for reformers from above — based in Whitehall rather than Northern Ireland — the past operation of local democracy was seen as part of the problem .
29 Other debates and ideologies , originating both from state apparatuses and from capital , talked of affluence and a consumer spending boom , and more education was seen as part of the route to yet greater affluence .
30 The package was seen as part of the transition from a labour-intensive to a capital-intensive economy in Mauritius .
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