Example sentences of "seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another persuasive defence of economic reforms yesterday by Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , may have been enough to have seen off remaining threats . |
| 2 | Clinton has seen off those who have had the guts to compete for the prize . |
| 3 | Following it up with a barbaric dose of guitar pop like ‘ Kennedy ’ would have seen off any new-found ‘ fans ’ and old faithfuls would have welcomed back their indie darlings at the drop of a balalaika . |
| 4 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 5 | The remains of one were found at Rye on 27 November 1938 ; one was seen off Langney Point on 4 June 1956 . |
| 6 | In addition feeding parties of up to 80 birds were seen offshore , mainly in early autumn , and 800 flew west off Beachy Head on 18 September 1976 , the largest movement yet seen off Sussex . |
| 7 | Elsewhere gatherings of 20 to 40 are noted frequently in the Pagham/Selsey area , off Climping and between Worthing and Shoreham ; 100 were seen off Lancing on 26 January 1964 , and about 65 wintered off Worthing in 1971/72 . |
| 8 | The world has seen off ten mammals in the last ten years including the Falkland Island wolf , the Syrian wild ass and the crescent nail-tail wallaby . |
| 9 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 10 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |
| 11 | In years of glorious combat , Altrincham and Yeovil have seen off League opposition 15 times — and now they both have the chance to make it sweet 16 in this year 's second round . |
| 12 | Johnny Argie would n't have seen off the task force so bloody buggering easy if the old ‘ evenin' all ’ had been on the South Atlantic beat . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 14 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 15 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 16 | Control Data Corp , Memorex Corp , Storage Technology Corp , and those thrusting newcomers Seagate Technology Inc and Tandon Corp , which had seen off such old-timers as Shugart Corp and Pertec Computer Corp . |
| 17 | Mr Dinkins has seen off both his main challengers for the Democratic nomination in recent weeks . |
| 18 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 19 | Such changes can be seen off the Kent coast with the cementing of the Isle of Thanet to the mainland and the silting up of the Wantsum Channel in post-Roman times . |
| 20 | Juventus , built around the sublime skills of an Irishman called Liam Brady , were seen off 1–0 . |
| 21 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 22 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in south Derbyshire , having seen off Arthur Scargill , we have a vigorous , successful engineering industry , a high level of exports and a young and growing work force with a low level of unemployment ? |
| 23 | In previous years , the city has seen off Calgary in Canada and Frankfurt in Germany . |
| 24 | In previous years , Belfast has seen off Calgary and Frankfurt in the worldwide competition — and now the town to beat is Rostock in Germany . |
| 25 | ‘ If you do find the murderer , Robert , do n't stop him in his tracks until he has seen off the Colonel . ’ |
| 26 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 27 | Earlier he had seen off Darren Thompson of Newport , and beat Blackwood 's Nigel Organ in the quarter-final . |
| 28 | The kind of media barrage of misinformation , lies and distorted perceptions that we have seen during these past weeks , is in fact one of the most important strategies of ‘ Operation Desert Storm ’ . |
| 29 | Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season . |
| 30 | In 1771 he preached also at the flourishing society of Derryanville and at Kilmoriarty there was the largest congregation he had seen during the week . |