Example sentences of "[be] seen [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of the benefits are seen to derive from the effects of increased competition and lower costs which lead to lower prices , and also stimulate investment . |
| 2 | Land problems are seen to arise from the technically necessary modernization of manufacturing industry . |
| 3 | Compared with the old system , increases in the marginal tax rate ( MTR ) are seen to occur for the £75-£115 weekly pay band with the average tax rate ( ATR ) falling , indicating that both substitution and income effects should pull in this range towards less work . |
| 4 | Equally , however , the railway unions may be subject to pressure from higher levels to moderate their demands if these are seen to conflict with the union 's national negotiating strategy . |
| 5 | The speaker 's sectional interests , as a businessman , are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else . |
| 6 | Increases in money wages are seen to result from the activities of strong trade unions who make use of their monopoly power in the control of the supply of labour to push for wage increases in excess of those required to compensate workers for rising prices and rising productivity . |
| 7 | Then Frank and Betty are seen driving in the car at a clifftop beauty spot , where they get out and have a picnic . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone 's been seen prowling round the house . |
| 9 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |
| 10 | The man , who was wearing a rucksack , is thought to have been seen running along the lane by motorists . ’ |
| 11 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 12 | For earlier social reformers , human progress or decline had been seen to depend on the constant interplay of the individual 's moral faculties and the state of the environment . |
| 13 | Each Market Day , from lunchtime on , his trap , with a very patient pony in the shafts , could been seen waiting outside The Cathedral Hotel in Milford Street . |
| 14 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 15 | ‘ I hear you have been seen going into the House of Oliver , ’ she said , her immaculately painted lips tight with fury . |
| 16 | An attending female has been seen to bite through the umbilical cord of a captive dusky dolphin during the birth of her young , but usually the mother does this herself . |
| 17 | This pursuing of tangential trains of thought in order to arrive at novel ideas has been seen to contrast with the ‘ convergent ’ thinking demanded by the items in normal IQ tests . |
| 18 | Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires . |
| 19 | Black kites can still be seen soaring between the sky-scrapers . |
| 20 | The tiny fry ( about 1.5mm ) will be seen darting around the container and they can be removed by using a pipette or a teaspoon . |
| 21 | Twenty four hours after spawning , the eggs will hatch , and the minute fry can be seen wriggling on the bottom of the tank under the spawning mops . |
| 22 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Attendance at external courses must be justified against training objectives or be seen to acquire for the county library some new or up-date skill/ knowledge/experience which would otherwise be a noticeable gap ’ . |
| 24 | To identify people by name can be seen to detract from the objectivity of the report . |
| 25 | This relatively explicit form can be seen to modulate into the process of association of particular works with particular powerful names : the patron , in effect , as dedicatee . |
| 26 | Even when hunched on the top step , no chink can be seen leaking around the doorframe , because it is perfectly insulated with foam plastic strip . |
| 27 | In fact there is a direct continuation inland for several miles of the algal mat that can be seen forming on the beach at the present day . |
| 28 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
| 29 | They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank . |
| 30 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |