Example sentences of "could be see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Janice , eternally hopeful , kept her eye upon the possibilities ; she perched herself , kneeling , upon a chair , so that at least her head could be seen above the crowd . |
| 2 | Before the last war the Royal Engineer Drag Hounds could be seen following the scent along the Pilgrims Road , but this is a sight no longer with us . |
| 3 | Then in the distance , the 6ft wave could be seen for the first time roaring up river at 10 mph . |
| 4 | Marx blinked at what could be seen of the office ceiling through the hanging cloud of his cigar smoke . |
| 5 | Three screens showed views of the slim man 's shelter of rocks , but all that could be seen of the target were the streams of laser fire that issued from his blaster . |
| 6 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 7 | Dark clouds now covered the sky and what could be seen of the harbour was a study in greys , slate blues and silver . |
| 8 | Mountains could be seen across the bay . |
| 9 | At last a rider could be seen across the fields . |
| 10 | The smoke from the merry burning rose miles high , in a wind-sculpted black column that could be seen across the whole of the discworld . |
| 11 | There is not a public pathway along the river to the south , but if there was , the bridges built for the barge houses could be seen over the drainage dykes . |
| 12 | The bomb-bursts could be seen through the huge pall of smoke and dust that hung over the city . |
| 13 | The success of this liaison could be seen through the arranging of seventeen day schools and six residential WETUC weekend schools . |
| 14 | A cream blouse and skirt could be seen through the window . |
| 15 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 16 | Many features distinguish Wilson & Glick kitchens from others in a similar price bracket , making them exceptionally good value for money , as could be seen at the Ideal Home Exhibition which was even more successful ‘ the second time around ’ . |
| 17 | A budget of £7.17.10 in 1910 meant that only twenty-five babies per week could be seen at the clinic ; but the work continued , and expanded . |
| 18 | Heavy freight 2-8-0- No. 2857 , on loan from the Severn Valley Railway , hauled hourly services between Toddington and Gretton starting at 11am while 50 year old Bagnall 0–6–0 No. 2566 ‘ Byfield No. 2 ’ could be seen at the head of a goods train shunting from the yard to the bay siding at Toddington . |
| 19 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 20 | Access to the centre of the ‘ bowl ’ is conveniently on the south coast where a track could be seen on the map heading for but stopping short of Ipsarion . |
| 21 | When the time came for the statement , Dr Clark could be seen on the Opposition front bench , clutching a sheaf of notes . |
| 22 | The wall was built by the water authorities to secure the catchment area of the splendid Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs , and for many years marked the route of the annual Mourne Wall Walk , which followed the wall for much of its 22 mile circuit and was the only occasion when walkers could be seen on the hills en masse . |
| 23 | Similar patterns of dispersal could be seen on the terraces themselves , with S3 always standing further back than the rest . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , in one significant respect an important modification to the common law rule could be seen with the proposal for a new s15A of SGA 1979 . |
| 25 | Two men in army clothes — possibly my two — could be seen about the camp from time to time , and Balfour thought that there might also be a third . |
| 26 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 27 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 28 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 29 | In the 1660s Henry Morgan , who had been recruited to help defend the islands , could be seen as the most outrageous of pirates or as a bold seadog who , in the course of active defence of the islands , led his men through extreme hardship to the capture of Panama , which was then brutally plundered . |
| 30 | On one level the policy of local agencies evolves in a way that is ‘ disjointed ’ and ‘ incremental ’ and could be seen as the antithesis of responsible party policy-making . |