Example sentences of "[adv] see on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 2 | Seven out of the nine are listed in Lister 's catalogue raisonné as being untraceable , and the exhibition as a whole includes a high proportion of works not seen on the market for some years . |
| 3 | He is now out and as soon as he returns is to accompany Lady Franklin and her party in a vessel round the island as far as Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour , which you may easily see on the map . |
| 4 | Sandy Island , which you can just see on the horizon from the Beach Restaurant , looks just like a cartoonist 's typical desert island sketch . |
| 5 | So ended one of the most traumatic experiences ever seen on the railway system in the British Isles . |
| 6 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 7 | Twoflower was a tourist , the first ever seen on the discworld . |
| 8 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 9 | Adventitious roots grow from the upper parts of a plant , as often seen on the houseplant monstera , or on trailing stems of ivy and marrows . |
| 10 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 11 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
| 12 | Although sometimes seen on the chalk cliffs in the summer , Cormorants have not bred in Sussex since 1938 or earlier . |
| 13 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 14 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 15 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 16 | These works are seldom seen on the market , and Christie 's canvas , not blistered by bitumen as are a number of Bonnat 's works in this vein , was particularly fine . |
| 17 | Red spots were sporadically seen on the mucosa at 10 minutes after the injection of endothelin-1 . |
| 18 | The helmet with a crest is only occasionally seen on the water now , mainly by the Kinver slalom team . |
| 19 | The result was that the real Britain was also never seen on the screen . |
| 20 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |