Example sentences of "[been] see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social science , this has meant that women have been virtually ignored , except as they related to men , and that the male has been seen as the norm . |
| 2 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 3 | The library , in which the tradition of Warburg is enshrined , has always been seen as the Institute 's essential purpose . |
| 4 | While The School Curriculum might have been seen as the government 's definitive statement on the structure of the national curriculum framework , it was superseded in September 1984 by The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum , although the wording of the latest document conveyed the impression that the final nature and scope of the national framework has not yet been determined . |
| 5 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 6 | Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being . |
| 7 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 8 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 9 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 10 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 11 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 12 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |
| 13 | Utopian ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of Marxist theory . |
| 14 | Ruling class ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of functionalist theory . |
| 15 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 16 | Long live prostitution — the like of which has not been seen since the downfall of Rome … ’ |
| 17 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 18 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
| 19 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
| 20 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 21 | Later today the body was identified as that of a 23 year old man from Cheltenham , who 'd been seen at the race course last night . |
| 22 | But the tragedy is that while essential aspects of the project , such as the denuded hillsides and the transport problem , could have been seen at the start , in 1978 , they were largely ignored . |
| 23 | Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying . |
| 24 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 25 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |
| 26 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 27 | I did n't dare show a light — though I doubt whether a light could have been seen from the shore through the mist , and there was probably no one to see it — but I knew where things were . |
| 28 | They can extend the information given in the text , as has been seen from the discussion of the picture-book above . |
| 29 | In its guidelines on the DMS and other ‘ courses for managers ’ issued in 1979 the Council defined access to the Diploma — which had been seen from the outset as a postgraduate award — in terms of flexible entry : in addition to the broad treatment of management studies and its supporting disciplines it incorporated |
| 30 | It was also sad that no English spinner had been seen throughout the rubber , and that both sides blatantly and cynically ignored the ruling about bowling 90 overs in a day , so that play just continued until the light faded every day of the series ; those two factors left many people fearful for the game 's future . |