Example sentences of "[was/were] seen [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most common cavity episodes had a single transient UOS relaxation , but up to five were seen during a single episode . |
| 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 third-floor blaze in Brighton , East Sussex , started just after 2am when flames were seen at a window . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His most recent ideas for stage sets were seen at the recent production of Hölderlin 's ‘ Oedipus ’ at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Patients were seen at the department after two and four weeks ( T 1 ) to assess dietary compliance and for clinical and laboratory monitoring . |
| 15 | Donegal trawlers were seen at the back of the Skerries , Donegore and The Humps the day before the festival started . |
| 16 | MURDERED hikers Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke were seen with a man at a picnic spot only five miles from where they were later found murdered , police said yesterday . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ Two of the Cheever brothers were seen outside the Pitt house the day they died . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 22 | It would be a pity if talk of road pricing were to divert attention from commonsense action needed now , or if it were seen as a substitute for a properly funded roads programme . |
| 23 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 24 | His remarks were seen as a sign that the community accepts that there could be a 20- or even 22-member organisation by the end of the 1990s . |
| 25 | Coward and Lawrence ( though he was obviously the brighter , better-read and more inquisitive of the two ) belong to an all-but vanished world in which celebrity , success and acclaim were seen as a means of validating one 's existence . |
| 26 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |
| 27 | His remarks were seen as a hint that the Conservatives might let a minority Government led by Mr Kinnock stay in office if it toned down its programme , rather than force an immediate second election . |
| 28 | The human factor was evident when short evenings in the spring and autumn were seen as a constraint in growing cereals . |
| 29 | But responses in 1985 were different , at least in terms of degree , and probably in relation to the extent to which the riots were seen as a ‘ race ’ phenomenon by a wider body of opinion . |
| 30 | The proposed continuation schools were seen as a means whereby the newly-discovered young workers would be given a ‘ liberal ’ education , involving a version of civic ethics which emphasized both occupational adaptability and community service . |