Example sentences of "to be seen [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 2 | But female psychologists are much more likely than male psychologists always to be seen as some male psychologist 's prize student . |
| 3 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 4 | In all these streets , thick with lime trees , estate agents ' boards and large , clean cars , there were no people to be seen at all . |
| 5 | After a while , there was nothing to be seen at all . |
| 6 | Mick 's lay at the end of a row of long , low wooden buildings with a careful air : there were no guards or electric fences or anyone to be seen at all , but you got the feeling it would be inadvisable to appear shifty in any way as you traversed the path . |
| 7 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 8 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 9 | It 's so important to be seen at these things and — I know it sounds very philistine — to show people that you have money . |
| 10 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 11 | Suddenly , only the second car to be seen on that road all day pulled up . |
| 12 | Whereas if a house is being sold your name is going to be seen on that particular product . |
| 13 | Top : Yak–18T CCCP–81434 with cooling louvres on the front of the cowling which are a distinctive feature of all Yak–18s and are also to be seen on several other Yak types , including the Yak–12 . |
| 14 | Not a savage nor a shopkeeper to be seen on this windy , sunny afternoon , great clouds pillowing across the sky . |
| 15 | Oh my dear some of them are comparing you with Racquel Welsh or whatever , you know you get the impression they 're looking down their nose , as much to say oh how dreadful for me to have to be seen with this old person ! |
| 16 | ‘ You are without doubt , Mama , the most unreasonable , the most selfish woman I have ever met , and I am not in the least ashamed to be seen with those boys . |
| 17 | The cartoons are to be seen among many others , similarly waggish and satirical , at Jack Duncan Books in Fossgate , York . |
| 18 | The fruits seem almost to jump into his hands and mouth , just dying to serve mankind , and , as with Marlowe , there is no sign of work to be seen behind this fertility . |
| 19 | So today 's record GCSE entries — coming hot on the heels of last week 's record ‘ A ’ level scores — have to be seen against that background . |
| 20 | One of the design 's eccentricities is that the gear never retracts fully , leaving a stub of tyre to be seen from each wheel . |
| 21 | It seems common sense to place the taller varieties at the back of the beds , or in the middle if they are to be seen from all angles , but other points can also be taken into account . |
| 22 | ‘ The show needs to be seen from this height ! ’ he shouted as a rivet gun started battering the iron frame of the tower behind them , ‘ but it 's not a domestic environment , not at all . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ All the same , I have no wish to be seen like this , ’ Edward said as if that were the end of the matter — but Richard heard the catch in his voice . |
| 24 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 25 | The great abbey of Vézelay , dedicated to St Mary Magdalen , was so thronged with pilgrims in the early twelfth century that a rebuilding programme was carried out , resulting in some of the finest Romanesque sculpture to be seen in all France . |
| 26 | The final stage was the flying buttress , developed especially by the French , and to be seen in all its decorative glory on the chevet of many a French cathedral ; Le Mans and Reims are two outstanding examples . |
| 27 | The reason for this commitment to quality is quite simple : ICI Chemicals & Polymers intends to be seen in all its markets and across its product and service range as the quality leader among the companies with which it competes . |
| 28 | So , the result should move in the direction of an open information society and away from the oligarchic tendencies to be seen in much political party management of local discussion . |
| 29 | The Expert stated that the proof of the argument was to be seen in many photos of Arabians . |
| 30 | Stuffed specimens are , however , to be seen in most collections where its form and plumage may be studied … ’ |