Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 2 | The refugee presence in neighbouring countries made the Palestine question highly visible , while from an Arab perspective the creation of Israel could only be seen as a smack in the face of the Arab nation . |
| 3 | Today it is possible to experience places and events which even thirty years ago could only be seen on the pages of geography textbooks . |
| 4 | Large figures , carved into the chalk hillside , such as the Uffington Horse , the Long Man of Wilmington and the Cerne Abbas Giant , are well known , but these figures were something very different : they were enormous earth sculptures which could only be seen properly from the air or on a map . |
| 5 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 6 | Although Buckingham was to take possession in most cases only as offices fell vacant , the existence of such a powerful reversionary interest could only be seen as a threat by existing office holders . |
| 7 | Although Buckingham was to take possession in most cases only as offices fell vacant , the existence of such a powerful reversionary interest could only be seen as a threat by existing office holders . |
| 8 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 9 | The famous ceiling , where the wooden angels flew face down through the dusty air above the crowd , was so high it could scarcely be seen in the gloom . |
| 10 | He pointed down under the seats : the edge of a shabby raincoat could just be seen . |
| 11 | Through the first tall window one end of a mobile trailer , the main incident room , could just be seen . |
| 12 | The girl pointed eastwards , where a brightly coloured pennant could just be seen beyond the abbey 's spire . |
| 13 | He had drawn his sword and held it , not yet in challenge aloft , but where the naked blade could just be seen by men on horse-back . |
| 14 | For a health service observer such a home could easily be seen as a failure . |
| 15 | Q My garden is too small for a pond to keep fish which could easily be seen . |
| 16 | But viewed from Europe this could easily be seen as yet another example of a US-Japan alliance designed to maintain the status quo of world computer dominance . |
| 17 | A simple home for a single family was often made on a small rock outcrop which was sheer on three sides and from which an approaching enemy could easily be seen and easily ejected , and such can be found at Dun Finn in Kildalton and at Rockside where a sherd of cordon decorated Iron Age pottery was found . |
| 18 | A simple home for a single family was often made on a small rock outcrop which was sheer on three sides and from which an approaching enemy could easily be seen and easily ejected , and such can be found at Dun Finn in Kildalton and at Rockside where a sherd of cordon decorated Iron Age pottery was found . |
| 19 | They needed to leave something noticeable , something that could easily be seen and not misunderstood . |
| 20 | Obversely he comments that , whilst the history department at Birkbeck College in London got a well-deserved five in the latest research assessment exercise — neither the quality of the research not its subject area could possibly be seen as being solely dependent on the strengths of the library of that college . |
| 21 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 22 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 23 | A mist hung over the river , and the buildings on the far bank could hardly be seen . |
| 24 | She 'd wrapped him up so well against the weather that he could hardly be seen in the middle of all his clothing . |
| 25 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 26 | The garden was overgrown , but the shape of submerged flower beds could still be seen , and the minute spears upthrusting by the house wall showed where there remained a clump of snowdrops . |
| 27 | What could still be seen , in the splendid roof-tops and towers of magnificent buildings . |
| 28 | In all these market phases , the producer could still be seen as an originator , though in practice , throughout , there were qualifications . |
| 29 | Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position . |
| 30 | Closer examination showed that it had been cut out — a row of stitch-holes could still be seen , and in two places there were scraps of the thread that had formed the stitches . |