Example sentences of "[be] seen [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day he can often be seen looking like an overgrown pit pony in a thin , rather dirty New Zealand rug which has so far survived all his attempts at removal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On close examination , tiny points of light can be seen bouncing in a random zig-zag motion . |
| 4 | Black kites can still be seen soaring between the sky-scrapers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | There are two different problems , and we all know that in order to gain the confidence of patients , every doctor has to be seen to behave in an impeccable manner . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 10 | And never be too proud to be seen riding in a little buggy like this , instead of a limousine . |
| 11 | To identify people by name can be seen to detract from the objectivity of the report . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 19 | Suddenly , at about 3 o'clock , a pall of thick black smoke could be seen rising from the town and shortly afterwards came flames and then loud crackling was heard . |
| 20 | Especially notable is the approach view from the road bridge , where the vast pile can be seen rising from the banks of the great river . |
| 21 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 22 | Each of these premises can be seen acting to a greater or lesser degree in the siting of any particular settlement . |
| 23 | The china souvenirs can be seen displayed in the background . |
| 24 | The water surface then acts as an entrapping wall , although individual fish will often be seen flying through the air trying to avoid capture . |
| 25 | The last of the swallows had gone long ago and now the black outline of rooks could be seen flying around the ploughed fields looking for grubs . |
| 26 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 27 | Now they can be seen strolling around the city alongside their mahouts or drivers , or earning their living as tourist attractions , tethered to hotel lawns and bars . |
| 28 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 29 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 30 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |