Example sentences of "seen [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Madrid is also seen as the right venue for other reasons .
2 The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket .
3 The most important thing — of course — was being seen with the right people , and the Mirza Nama opens with a salutary warning : ‘ He [ the mirza ] must not speak to every unworthy person , and should regard men of his own class as the only [ fit ] companions [ for him ] . ’
4 She felt gloriously immune to the unspoken pull here to wear the right clothes , to be seen with the right people , in the right places , at the right time .
5 It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context .
6 Maud liked to be associated with the right people and be seen in the right places .
7 The scientist who proposes new interpretations or principles is rather like the fictional detective ( they may exist in reality too ) who is faced with the same evidence as the reader and the police , but sees that it forms a different pattern when seen from the right angle .
8 Transparent fabrics require neat seams as they can be seen from the right side .
9 Alternatively , to prevent any stitching being seen from the right side , slipstitch the top edge in place ( fig. 21 ) .
10 I extract significance from melodrama , a significance which it does not in fact contain ; but occasionally , from out of this matter , there escapes a thin beam of light that , seen at the right angle , can crack the shell of mortality .
11 Advertisers keep telling us that if only we were to buy all the right things , wear the right clothes , be seen at the right places , then we could be happy and popular and successful .
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