Example sentences of "[prep] what can [be] seen " in BNC.

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1 Objectively , in terms of what can be seen and/or heard .
2 It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses .
3 However , we also had an opportunity to study restored sites and we were generally impressed by the quality of what can be seen .
4 Part of the original great tower or donjon survives , but much of what can be seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the mighty circular donjon surrounded by its own moat and , on the east side , a great hall and chapel .
5 A description of an organism in terms of what can be seen or measured .
6 He continues the list of what can be seen , using run on lines to build up to the climax :
7 The Springbok all-rounder of the 1960s and 1970s has been appointed coach of Transvaal in what can be seen as a determined bid by the lions of the north to regain their position as the top dogs of South African domestic cricket .
8 Freud sees this aspect of Judaism as marking an advance away from sensuality , from what can be seen or touched , towards intellectuality , thought processes about unseen things , such as God .
9 They range also from what can be seen , simply , as the ‘ translation ’ of ‘ ideology ’ into directly sensuous material , to what is better seen , in terms of the physical and material processes of art work , as production of a distinct and general kind .
10 Whereas the descriptions of the opening chapter are confined to what can be seen from within his shack , visual perspectives increase in variety and number when he ventures out of doors .
11 The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled .
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