Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 2 | However , very few skins were seen on the streets between 1972 and 1976 . |
| 3 | Birds were seen on the cliffs in East Sussex as early as 1950 , but despite a considerable increase in numbers , breeding was not proved until 1976 . |
| 4 | The fences on either side of the track were in poor repair and in April 1965 children were seen on the line . |
| 5 | Puffins were seen on the island for the first time in years . |
| 6 | Complementary pits were seen on the E-face . |
| 7 | Mr Watson said the defence would now be looking for a ‘ courting couple ’ who were seen on the bus at the time of the incident . |
| 8 | The earliest displays of Etruscan and Greek art in Republican Rome were seen at the triumphal parades of loot and prisoners held in the centre of Rome to celebrate the victories of Roman consuls , senior magistrates who led the army into battle . |
| 9 | Birds showing the characters of the race carolinensis were seen at the Midrips between 19 and 22 March 1961 , and in the Cuckmere Valley on 21 and 22 March 1975 . |
| 10 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 11 | His most recent ideas for stage sets were seen at the recent production of Hölderlin 's ‘ Oedipus ’ at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum . |
| 12 | Most of the patients were referred for investigation to the Department of Gastroenterology of Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital , and the remainder were seen at the Third Department of Internal Medicine , Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine . |
| 13 | Patients were seen at the department after two and four weeks ( T 1 ) to assess dietary compliance and for clinical and laboratory monitoring . |
| 14 | Donegal trawlers were seen at the back of the Skerries , Donegore and The Humps the day before the festival started . |
| 15 | No significant differences were seen with the higher dose of collagen ( 5 μg/ml ) , probably because the impedance aggregometer is more sensitive to smaller platelet aggregates than to the larger aggregates which would have been induced by the high-dose collagen ( Ingerman-Wojenski et al , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ Two of the Cheever brothers were seen outside the Pitt house the day they died . |
| 18 | Moreover , I could never understand why , on the very day horsemen were seen outside the priory , you permitted the Lady Eleanor not to attend Compline . |
| 19 | As a close friend of the ANC president , Oliver Tambo — with Mr Mandela the three were seen as the organisation 's ruling ‘ troika ’ — he is certain to become a leading force in South African politics . |
| 20 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 21 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 22 | The forties were seen as the age of potential transition from ‘ young ’ to ‘ old ’ . |
| 23 | The enabling schemes were seen as the beginning and end of community care . |
| 24 | Individual conduct and moral reformation were seen as the key to public health . |
| 25 | Perhaps not surprisingly for some Americans , as Heath reported , it was not the Vietminh who were seen as the enemy but the French . |
| 26 | In the final analysis , neither specialization , nor " crude and slovenly workmanship " , nor technical inadequacies , were seen as the greatest dangers . |
| 27 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 28 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 29 | The suburbans were seen as the epitome of clerkly conformism , complacency , and conservatism . |
| 30 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |