Example sentences of "[be] seen [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The china souvenirs can be seen displayed in the background . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The family coat of arms can be seen carved at the main doorway of the house and in the Church . |
| 5 | The emblem of the Parlers , a runic square , can be seen carved in the base . |
| 6 | At the far end of the corridor , almost in front of the large window , at that moment filled with grey light and rain , my father 's figure could be seen frozen in a posture that suggested he was taking part in some ceremonial ritual . |
| 7 | Nationalist aspirations can be seen reflected in the renaming of the Dublin terminals after Irish revolutionary heroes ( Connolly , Pearse , Heuston ) . |
| 8 | Some of these opinions can be seen reflected in the behaviour of skins , but the parallel should not be taken too far . |
| 9 | From here the hull of the fishermen 's boat , lashed by the high seas the previous day , could be seen ditched on a group of rocks to one side of the tiny bay . |
| 10 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 11 | Newman and Copland walked to the edge of the entrance , a grenade silencing one post a mere 25 yards away ; over the water the searchlight of the Mole could be seen beamed on the river . |
| 12 | According to Roger of Howden , as they did so , the shape of a cross could be seen outlined in the sky above their heads . |
| 13 | After the data have been processed , colour-coded vegetation levels can be seen superimposed on the relief . |