Example sentences of "to be seen [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Display panels at the stone-walled redoubt below Durlston Castle give drawings of the many seabirds likely to be seen wheeling or nesting on the cliff including kittiwakes , fulmars and guillemots . |
| 2 | ‘ Literature has to be seen wearing something , it can not simply circulate its non-being , and almost any article will do . |
| 3 | Conservation propaganda has made fashionable women genuinely ashamed to be seen wearing a leopard-skin coat . |
| 4 | She had bought her own copy of the Koran and was to be seen reading it on her way to work in the morning . |
| 5 | The three from the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College are to be seen enjoying the atmosphere at Brannegans and taking part in a lively debate in Club Lucy 's in East Street . |
| 6 | Otherwise there is a danger that the phrase will be used merely symbolically , to create the illusion of change , to deflect criticism , or to discredit opposition ( because no one would want to be seen to oppose ‘ the child 's best interests ’ ) . |
| 7 | Presidents , naturally , do not want to be seen to condone the taking of drugs ; the public temper is for stiff penalties and the locking up of offenders , not tender care . |
| 8 | Callaghan took great pains inside the Cabinet to be seen to let the notion of an alternative strategy have a fair run . |
| 9 | Whatever their differences , the two queens had one quality in common : Mary , like Elizabeth , sensed that the best way to win her subjects ' affection and loyalty was for her to be seen moving among them . |
| 10 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 11 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 12 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 13 | The priest and all on the altar need to be seen singing otherwise it gives the impression that singing does not matter . |
| 14 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 15 | It was the sun 's messenger and therefore acted as a herald of peace and prosperity , always to be seen flying overhead when a new Emperor ascended the throne . |
| 16 | ‘ Someone 's got to be seen eating here , ’ he hissed . |
| 17 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 18 | Well I do n't want to be seen drinking more than he is ! ’ |
| 19 | The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’ |
| 20 | Simon , a manager who , at 39 , is the oldest person questioned , says : ‘ The idea that people will think it is in some way impressive to be seen drinking low-alcohol muck is obvious nonsense . ’ |
| 21 | Where the desire of governments to avoid disruption conflicts with other priorities , such as the need to be seen to control public sector pay or working practices , intervention may well be secretive . |
| 22 | He was a boy who was always on his own , often to be seen watching television programmes in the windows of electrical shops . |
| 23 | But she remained disturbed , acutely aware of him at her side and only grateful that he despised her too much to allow himself to be seen touching her in public . |
| 24 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 25 | You see they 've got to be seen taking it out |
| 26 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 27 | near the church , the mere , a large expanse of water fed by natural springs and formerly a mill pond , is a picturesque area attracting many birds to overwinter , whilst in summer whole families are to be seen feeding the ducks . |
| 28 | In reference to the number of subscriptions in Hanoverian England , Pat Rogers maintains that ‘ To be able to spend enough money on a leisure activity , and to be seen to do so , was an act of social definition . ’ |
| 29 | The concerns that have been expressed outside the park committees need to be fully voiced within them if the committees are to decide in the best interests of the parks and their purposes , and if they are to be seen to do so . |
| 30 | The other consultants in the team are expected to integrate around that style and there is pressure for them to be seen to do so . |