Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The organism was only seen on villous epithelium .
2 Yet these same people may have great sources of energy which are only seen in non-career activities .
3 This means that its touring shows are normally only seen in secondary schools .
4 But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling .
5 It provided a discordant note , for example , in the Pop Art exhibition organised by Norman Rosenthal for the Royal Academy and widely seen in other countries .
6 Seventy-nine works are included , some rarely seen outside private collections .
7 This species is rarely seen before late October , and wintering birds have usually gone by late March or early April .
8 Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants .
9 Much of it with plants rarely seen in modern flower beds .
10 Swainson ( 1840 ) had called this animal Polytropa lapillus ( L. ) but that name must give precedence to one of the older names if it is valid-and the name Polytropa lap ii/us is rarely seen in modern literature .
11 To an insider Detroit might look empty ; to an outsider it 's bustling with the kind of noisy energy rarely seen in European cities .
12 In that game his side displayed a verve and fair rarely seen in English rugby , let alone at a senior representative level , as they ran the bemused Australians ragged .
13 With the exception of brands like Janneau and Sempé , armagnac is rarely seen in duty-free lounges or glitzy cocktail bars .
14 Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa .
15 It has very low surface brightness , and is best seen with low powers as an oval blur .
16 Altogether , Scorpius has much to offer , though it is of course best seen from southern latitudes , where it can pass over the zenith .
17 ‘ Fund raising fatigue ’ soon builds up so the target is best seen in maximum returns for minimum expenditure of energy .
18 Education in Britain is best seen in pyramidal terms .
19 It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people .
20 But by 1800 , man and woman were no longer seen as similar bodies on different parts of a scale .
21 The sale attracted a large proportion of new faces not normally seen at Old Master sales , attracted by the Spanish subject matter and willing to purchase works which were by no means new to the market in a number of cases .
22 Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer .
23 Nordique uses a variable high-speed memory in the control unit to provide greater throughput than normally seen in conventional disk units , the company said .
24 The first uses large , two metres tall puppets which can be easily seen by large audiences .
25 A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life .
26 We should not forget the general point that , in many communities where religious affiliation plays no part in political decisions , the clergy are still seen as leading figures who can be called upon to lead and organize activities outside the narrow remit of religion .
27 On the other hand , duodenal ulcers were still seen in comparable proportions in the presence or absence of NSAIDs , which could be because of other mechanisms of NSAID toxicity such as suppression of mucosal prostaglandins .
28 Even Europe was represented , in what was almost identical to a traditional flag-dance I had once seen in rural Portugal .
29 For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading .
30 There is an intensity and brilliance not usually seen in pastel ranges and the emphasis is on a clear cut , ordered and resonant scale of colours , rather than a clutter of derivative shades and tints .
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