Example sentences of "[be] see by the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The young working class in deindustrialising , inner urban areas are seen by the new subcultural theory as caught up in a bitter series of conflicts and contradictions .
2 In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task .
3 We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public .
4 The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example .
5 Smile , for even though you ca n't be seen by the other person , if you smile it helps your voice to sound more assertive and friendly .
6 However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire .
7 Moreover , at its base , clearly to be seen by the practised eye , were the shield , square cross and crossed swords of St Manicus 's Cathedral arms .
8 There was no point in delay , nor any in waiting until darkness ; the relief should be seen by the English to be effected and effective .
9 It can be seen by the same argument that if the effect of subjective risk was to systematically alter memory in any other way this would also have important consequences for the future avoidance of dangerous situations .
10 In both of these there can be seen by the 1880s and 1890s an anxious defensiveness , a feeling that the nation 's value and importance must be asserted in the face of more successful rivals .
11 Even though the morning 's inclement weather prevented some aircraft from reaching Rendcomb , an interesting selection of display and visiting aircraft could be seen by the undaunted crown that turned up during the awful morning .
12 So , in effect , the SAM works by taking an enormous number of individual measurements of acoustic reflectivity and converting them to equivalent light and dark dots on a TV screen where they can be seen by the human eye .
13 The bone shows very fine splitting along the lines of orientation of the collagen fibres ( Fig. 1.4A ) and slight erosion of the pits and canals , but these are only visible under high magnification and can not be seen by the naked eye .
14 During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye .
15 Soon it could no longer be seen by the naked eye , but the professor continued to watch it through binoculars .
16 It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty .
17 The adult worms which measure up to 2.5 cm are bloodsuckers , have a reddish colour and can be seen by the naked eye .
18 In November of each year the Nail is brought to the floor of the cathedral so it my be seen by the faithful .
19 This is ideal country for walking , bird watching , horse riding and fishing , and where red deer can also be seen by the patient watcher .
20 To be given tax free , such allowances must be seen by the Inland Revenue as being reasonable in amount and properly controlled .
21 The way this government control has come to be accepted as normal and proper can be seen by the irritated reactions of ministers and whips on the odd occasions when something goes wrong .
22 Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished .
23 I hung about further down the street , hoping not to be seen by the few people who were strolling there .
24 Hurricanes were seen by the Italian crews , but failed to intercept .
25 The American Rebellion and War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) were seen by the British Left as the first stages of the liberation of England .
26 The combined model gave the best correlation between multispectral scanner data and ground truth ( i.e. between what is seen by the remote scan and what is really there ) .
27 But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations .
28 For there can be no doubt that Expressive behaviour as understood by Tormey — a state of emotional arousal in a person relating prepositionally to an object ( or person ) outside that person — is seen by the Stanislavskian School as a proper way for an actor to behave on stage .
29 The condition of RENFE was seen by the new government as one of the most pressing problems that it had to face .
30 In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) .
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