Example sentences of "[adv] seen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so seen are things beyond us to construe |
| 2 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 3 | The only people not seen are the performers . |
| 4 | By environment is meant all the factors that occur around us and potentially influence our internal metabolism , which we have already seen is initially determined by genetic make-up . |
| 5 | The picture , the acute picture which you 've just seen is virtually exclusively due to the production of a toxin and that toxin produces really a necrotic pharyngitis inflammation of the pharynx associated with necrosis and detachment of what we call the pseudo-membrane . |
| 6 | True , the STV may as we have just seen be broken down into unpredictable fractions if the senatorial rules are applied . |
| 7 | What they ‘ d just seen was an excerpt from his full-length film Is There Sex After Death ? , a blue movie parody that he ‘ d made on a very tight budget — so tight in fact that the only way he could think of promoting it was to call a press conference — of a sort ! |
| 8 | Then we come back to me in the studio and I say , ‘ The film you have just seen was an attempt to blah blah blah . |
| 9 | The picture she had just seen was engraved in her mind like a photograph , and even such a short glimpse of the two lovers had left her in no doubt about their identity . |
| 10 | saw , which er , is obvious a machine , they even had band saws apparently at the end of the last century , cabinet makers band saws oh I 've never seen , all I 've ever seen is the big ones for mills you know the logs , these ones for er , obviously for timber erm |
| 11 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 12 | A middle-aged man with corn-coloured hair and the bluest eyes Willie had ever seen was sitting on a stool milking one of a handful of cows . |
| 13 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 14 | One of the most impressive examples of one-room living that I have ever seen was in a long , narrow space approximately 7.5 m by 3 m ( 24 ft by 10 ft ) . |
| 15 | Second , they can be qualified by relative clauses : ( 26 ) the rudest , which was very rude indeed , is best forgotten now the longest that I have ever seen was about two metres and a half ( 27 ) the fragrant , which comes from Japan , is a splendid choice the triangular which you wanted has been sold |
| 16 | Up until now the only badger I 'd ever seen was dead on the side of the road . |
| 17 | The waters now seen are those of Loch Hourn , an inlet of the Sound of Sleat extending ten miles inland and , in its narrow further reaches , the most impressive of the western sea lochs . |
| 18 | There are two or three colour forms of this pretty little fish , but the most often seen is an ember-red colour . |
| 19 | The rough , bubbly surface often seen is possibly due to a shortage of tin in the alloy , which meant that the metal did not flow well . |
| 20 | A little bit sarcastically my boss said er to the owners There 's nothing else that we have n't seen is there ? |
| 21 | But he just kept shaking his head and would n't say , and the only thing Preston was sure he had n't seen was Mary Moxton Parading around in the Nude . |
| 22 | He motioned her to the small round table she had n't seen being laid out and urged her to drink and eat . |
| 23 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 24 | Movements of over 1,000 birds in a day are noted almost every spring , however , and the largest single movement yet seen was of 12,000 flying east off Beachy Head on 7 April 1969 . |
| 25 | Words recently seen are more likely to be remembered at deeper levels of processing . |