Example sentences of "seen [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 2 | Most common cavity episodes had a single transient UOS relaxation , but up to five were seen during a single episode . |
| 3 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 4 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 5 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 6 | The main effect is seen during the prepatent phase , when the larvae are in the mucosa . |
| 7 | It is hoped that the new releases will continue the minor upturn in personal computer sales seen during the fourth quarter after the release of the PCS and M300 . |
| 8 | ‘ Now ’ , said my guide , ‘ you 've seen about the finest thing in corridors and new main line coaches , so come and have a look at our new Watford locals — the best locals , bar none , in the Kingdom ’ . |
| 9 | They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care . |
| 10 | Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle , in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes . |
| 11 | It was seen as a temporary move to improve liquidity over Christmas , rather than an indication of a new trend in interest rates . |
| 12 | However , if success can be measured by the number of governments in all parts of the world now privatising their state-owned assets , then privatisation can be seen as a great success . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , although for many people the rise in car ownership can be seen as a great success , for a significant minority either unable to drive or unable to afford a car , notably the old , the young , the unemployed , the housewife ( left at home without a car ) and the disabled the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in rural public transport , a concentration of services into ever more remote central places with increased journey lengths as shown in Table 6.1a , and a real sense of isolation and deprivation . |
| 14 | This positive curvature of space-time , which reflects the fact that gravity is attractive , was seen as a great problem by Einstein . |
| 15 | Passing on life to another generation is seen as a great privilege and joy . |
| 16 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 17 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |
| 18 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 19 | However , since the project was designed for small samples , which would encourage certain types of analysis rather than others , the shortfall in the Ipswich control area was not seen as a great disadvantage . |
| 20 | Sometimes this initial encounter with the Spirit is seen as a great washing ( 1 Cor. 6:11 ) . |
| 21 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 22 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 23 | To notice only the bad , when there is so much good , may be seen as a jaundiced view . |
| 24 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 25 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 26 | By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges . |
| 27 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 28 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 29 | Others , however , including many of the heads of government who attended the conference , stressed that it should be seen as a first step towards sustainable development , and a welcome acknowledgement both of the seriousness of the problem and of the fact that global co-operation was needed to overcome it . |
| 30 | Others however , including many of the heads of state and government who attended the conference , argued that it should be seen as a first step on the road to sustainable development , a welcome acknowledgement of the seriousness of the problem , and of the fact that global co-operation was needed to tackle it . |