Example sentences of "to [be] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are likely to be seeing even more of him on television . |
| 2 | Strange to be seeing still things , Jed thought . |
| 3 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 4 | Such were the treasures to be seen when Philip Miller arrived at Oud-Poelgeest in 1727 and he reported on many rare shrubs and gathered seeds from curious plants . |
| 5 | But , to the great interest of all at Thrush Green , no husband was to be seen when she moved in . |
| 6 | Nowhere to be seen when the shrapnel was flying . |
| 7 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 8 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the attitude of the Democrat majorities in both houses towards a war with Iraq was unclear , their leaders appearing to want to be seen neither to sanction nor to prohibit the use of force . |
| 10 | The lines made by the two dancers together must always have room to breathe and to be seen separately if the whole design is to flow . |
| 11 | There are plenty of other gulls to be seen inland : common and herring gulls in particular , and increasing numbers of lesser blackbacked gulls , though the greaters still tend to stay on the coast . |
| 12 | C.f however , Canada Goose , much more likely to be seen inland . |
| 13 | To be seen clearly under an optical microscope , cell tissues often have to be stained to increase contrast . |
| 14 | First , a single sense can be modified in an unlimited number of ways by different contexts , each context emphasising certain semantic traits , and obscuring or suppressing others ; just as a dirty window-pane will allow some parts of the scene beyond it to be seen clearly , and will partially or completely obscure other parts — and a different pane will affect the same scene differently . |
| 15 | But he felt , in a way that must seem absurd when the conflict in the Falklands is dramatised repeatedly before it is even over , when the widow of an assassinated president is recreated in large in her lifetime on the epic screen , that these events were too close to be seen clearly , too large and foul and complex to be treated with decorum . |
| 16 | But , on reaching there , no vestige nor any sign of any material ship was to be seen either near or away to the horizon . |
| 17 | Many other obstacles to review , such as collusive disregard of inconvenient problems , when management of an institution prefers not to recognize a problem , and a course team does not want to be seen either as having problems , or as inconveniencing management , must be addressed by incorporating external expertise into the review process at judicious points . |
| 18 | Have letters large enough to be seen easily from a distance . |
| 19 | He left a gate open and Mr Cod wandered off , never to be seen again . |
| 20 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 21 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 22 | It used to display a fine series of Flemish tapestries but these were ‘ gifted ’ to von Ribbentrop , Hitler 's foreign affairs advisor , never to be seen again . |
| 23 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 24 | The wireless truck and its crew , however , had totally disappeared , never to be seen again . |
| 25 | Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure . |
| 26 | The prime objective for a clinic is that the patient returns to be seen again and everything is secondary to that objective . |
| 27 | The guzzling of our resources is even more worrying when one realises that two-thirds of the energy produced in a power station floats straight out of the cooling towers , never to be seen again . |
| 28 | It was never to be seen again ! |
| 29 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 30 | Just another wartime control tower , readers may think , but fans of the famed 1940s bandleader Glenn Miller will know that it was from Twinwoods , Beds , that Miller , then a Major in the USAAF and in charge of the American Band of the AEF , departed in a UC–64 Norseman on December 15 , 1944 for Paris — never to be seen again . |