Example sentences of "be seen [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , an excellent day of tennis of both quality and quantity , enabling the multi-sport Bourne Club to be seen at its best . |
| 2 | This coach , after some hundred years of care at Wolverton , was handed to the National Railway Museum , and can now be seen at its York Museum . |
| 3 | Like all exhibition venues , it is a question of creating the right atmosphere for your work to be seen at its best advantage . |
| 4 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 5 | The term ‘ frottola ’ died out during the 1520s ; its substance may be seen at its most sophisticated in Antico 's Canzoni Sonetti Strambotti et Frottole , Libro Tertio ( Rome , 1517 ) , which includes beside a number of examples by Tromboncino some nearly madrigalian pieces by Genet/Carpentras and Michele Vicentino . |
| 6 | He was standing quite still now , arms folded across his chest , the dark eyes beneath the dark brows fixed on the approaching motor boat , but Ronni found herself reflecting that that hard muscular body , dressed now in white trousers and a faded blue T-shirt , would only be seen at its best in motion . |
| 7 | A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best . |
| 8 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 9 | A glimpse of his flamboyant lifestyle can be seen at his former Nottinghamshire home , NEWSTEAD ABBEY , a beautifully preserved tribute to this great Romantic . |
| 10 | With older sufferers , erm , usually families are excluded from treatment , they 're kept out , they 're told that they 're daughter erm must be seen on her own and they feel very helpless and very unloved and unsupported by by the professionals . |
| 11 | The Benin heads are represented with crowns or have the hair modelled and no traces of sprues can be seen on their tops . |
| 12 | When they are ready to be seen on their home territory — which may be northern Scandinavia or Iceland — they disappear , hopefully to come back with their offspring in the autumn . |
| 13 | Their 10-year-old daughter , Jessica , who is likely to be seen with her head buried in The Beano or a Roald Dahl novel , has provided the inspiration for many of her parents ' books . |
| 14 | People who could n't tell Weber from Webern went along to cheer their favourite tenor and be seen with their bums on a fifty-quid seat . |
| 15 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most spectacular example of a polyfocal village anywhere in England is Shrewton in Wiltshire , where the individual hamlets can be seen with their churches , both extant and lost . |
| 17 | One patient might attend the ward as a day-patient , another may be seen with his partner for marital therapy , another may continue in individual problem-orientated therapy , and so on . |
| 18 | At the same time the Welfare State , designed to provide a safety net for those incapable of fending for themselves , was being rapidly expanded , and the NHS can be seen as its greatest and most enduring feature . |
| 19 | Emptiness is both a cause and a result of passivity , and can be seen as its physiological epitome . |
| 20 | The adversary system , based on a party duopoly of seats in the House of Commons and party monopoly ( or an elective dictatorship ) of the government , has come to be seen as our national style of politics . |
| 21 | Joint working can be seen across our programme . |
| 22 | The towers of ventilating shafts can be seen above its course . |
| 23 | The king must not be seen without his clothes . |
| 24 | ‘ A man is honoured in that country , ’ he continues , ‘ according to what may be seen of his actions , conduct and zeal , since no one in India knows anything of family or lineage . ’ |
| 25 | Since Karajan had a love-hate relationship with the camera , loathing its intrusions into music-making in the concert hall and uneasy with formal portraits , Steiner 's observations have to be seen in their context , though it is undoubtedly the case that there was a quality of coolness and detachment about Karajan that shaped some of his music-making and made him , among other things , so formidable an interpreter of Sibelius and late Mahler . |
| 26 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 27 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 28 | The historians and the political theorists ( as well as recent commentators on them ) must themselves be seen in their historical and social contexts . |
| 29 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
| 30 | When looking for new sites on the ground , it can be very easy to overlook features or fail to understand them , whereas sites viewed from the air can be seen in their entirety . |