Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most recent ideas for stage sets were seen at the recent production of Hölderlin 's ‘ Oedipus ’ at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum . |
| 2 | The earliest displays of Etruscan and Greek art in Republican Rome were seen at the triumphal parades of loot and prisoners held in the centre of Rome to celebrate the victories of Roman consuls , senior magistrates who led the army into battle . |
| 3 | The average wait for these patients who were seen outside the normal times of outpatient clinics , was 13 ( range 3–104 ) weeks . |
| 4 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 5 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 6 | Hurricanes were seen by the Italian crews , but failed to intercept . |
| 7 | The American Rebellion and War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) were seen by the British Left as the first stages of the liberation of England . |
| 8 | None of these features were seen in the current study despite extensive mucosal sampling , suggesting that all are relatively unusual . |
| 9 | Moreover , many nematode larvae were seen in the intestinal lumen . |
| 10 | However , although significant , these changes in cell proliferation were very modest ( <20% increase ) and the most marked changes in cellular kinetics were seen in the proximal colon where most of the fermentation occurred and the highest SCFA concentrations were seen . |
| 11 | Occasional inclusion bodies highly suggestive of cytomegalovirus were seen in the ileal and rectal biopsies at colonoscopy and subsequently on the initial rectal biopsy when more sections were examined . |
| 12 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 13 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 14 | In this way recourse to the papal courts was encouraged , the pope was seen as the final judge and the delegate judges could be kept in touch with the latest legal developments by the terms of the mandate or letter of instruction . |
| 15 | As it happened , re-emigration was a non-starter , but it remained government policy and , until the war , it was seen as the only long-term solution to the refugee problem . |
| 16 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 17 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 18 | It was seen as the key element in the proposed transformation of the nation . |
| 19 | These nuances were lost in the United Kingdom , where rock 'n' roll was seen as another exotic American import like chewing-gum or cowboy films ; its explosive sexuality was seen as the key selling point of this product like the X-tail-fin on a new Ford — rather than as a process , and was thus isolated and marketed accordingly . |
| 20 | Centralization of authority within the parties was seen as the major obstacle to the implementation of their demands . |
| 21 | In the Keynesian era from 1945 to the end of the 1960s , fiscal policy was seen as the major weapon for controlling the economy . |
| 22 | Intellectuals of the age believed in parliamentary government , not a democratic system ; in liberty , not popular government ; and the spectre of social and economic equality itself was seen as the dark side of the claim for adult suffrage . |
| 23 | His ageing government showed insufficient energy in pursuing the effort of World War II and its prestige and confidence were undermined by the German air raids in April–May 1941 , indecision over conscription , the corruption of Belfast Corporation , what was seen as the weak and complacent handling of industrial relations , and confused planning for the post-war world . |
| 24 | On the one hand , large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism . |
| 25 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |
| 26 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 27 | This surplus , combined with dramatically increasing Hungarian tourist spending in convertible currencies following the opening of the borders , was seen as the main reason for a convertible current-account deficit of $1,140 million compared with $591,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 28 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 29 | The intelligence test was seen as the direct means of overcoming class difference in access to schooling — although this remained a means of social reform , not reform itself . |
| 30 | Consequently , prescriptive analysis was ambiguous : sustained export demand , not subject to stop/go was seen as the driving force yet dependent on improved competitiveness ; whether this improvement was itself dependent on export demand was never clearly specified . |