Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the forms of racism revealed here are seen as a form of false consciousness hosed on the |
| 2 | Within hours of the IDF departure Hezbollah militiamen returned to the villages , reportedly accompanied by members of what had hitherto been seen as their main rival within the Lebanese Shia population , the Syrian-backed Amal militia . |
| 3 | When they had all been seen to , and no call had come from the complex , Dr Rafaelo summoned Shelley to follow him . |
| 4 | They had all been seen in the vicinity of the turnpike and the nearby Duncan Woods . |
| 5 | The organization had long been seen as a forum for developing countries to press their interests and often for confrontation between developing and developed countries . |
| 6 | Nor was this a peculiarly Frankish problem : similar conflict had already been seen in the hostility between Sigistrix and Sigismund 's second wife , in the kingdom of the Burgundians . |
| 7 | Undamped relaxation oscillations had already been seen in such lasers , and at the time of writing there is the exciting prospect that the Lorenz system of equations may soon develop an experimental significance in laser physics to match their theoretical impact . |
| 8 | Someone said that O had not been seen at his job in the video hire shop for the whole week either . |
| 9 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 10 | He had not been seen at all at his office . |
| 11 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 12 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 13 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 14 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 15 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 16 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 17 | As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility . |
| 18 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 19 | He had not been seen since Castle Menzies . |
| 20 | Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash . |
| 21 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 22 | The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo . |
| 23 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 24 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 25 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 26 | The other 15 films were distractors , these were chosen from the exemplars of the same junctions which had not been seen by the subject before . |
| 27 | The other 24 films were distractors , the film from each pair that had not been seen by the subject before . |
| 28 | She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years . |
| 29 | Hillingdon 's thesis was that ‘ unexpressed needs ’ , though felt , had not been seen in terms of a library solution , whilst in the case of ‘ unactivated need ’ the library stimulated demand for needs which had not even been felt . |
| 30 | This was a significant discovery in that fusion had not been seen in toroidal discharges before . |