Example sentences of "be seen [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men could be seen grouping together , bugles and horns were sounded . |
| 2 | Restoration of old cars is a way of life in this country , with many beautiful maintained Morris Minors , Ford Anglias and Triumph Heralds still to be seen bowling along the roads , so giving a new lease of life to old aeroplanes seems to come naturally . |
| 3 | Variscan folding and thrusting can , however , be seen north of the Midi Overthrust , and the general view of workers in the U.K. is that here the Variscan Front can not be identified with a single laterally-continuous thrust plane , though locally it may be ( Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The only sandgrouse likely to be seen north of the Mediterranean region , and then only when one of its now very infrequent irruptions ( none on a large scale since 1908 ) from Central Asia occurs . |
| 5 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |
| 6 | Black figures could be seen milling round the ditch at the far end of it . |
| 7 | Due to social changes , women now play a more prominent role in most societies , and it has become more commonplace for women to be seen drinking . |
| 8 | Let us remember that it 's not the popular , attractive people who need our help most , but the lonely and the unpopular … those it might be easier to laugh at than to be seen helping . |
| 9 | They allow two different treatments of one product , to be seen side-by — side . ’ |
| 10 | They will be seen partaking of hospitality at college wine-and-cheese parties , at welcoming sherry receptions , at meetings of convocation and examination boards , at end-of-term wind-up parties and graduation celebrations . |
| 11 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |
| 12 | Behind can be seen bee hives . |
| 13 | Herons can be seen fishing in the tumbling stream . |
| 14 | The American art historian whom she had met in Perugia reappeared as professor on a sabbatical from his East Coast university , and was to be seen dining with Esther in restaurants beyond the reach of the undergraduate purse : the Arts Theatre Restaurant , Miller 's , the Garden House Hotel . |
| 15 | In many cases , a shrine is erected over the anthill and women can be seen lighting candles and praying to the Deity within . |
| 16 | Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels . |
| 17 | One of the old stations , complete with platform , can still be seen east of Newhaven Road Bridge . |
| 18 | Cregeen died on Good Friday , 9 April 1841 , and was buried 13 April in Arbory churchyard , where his elegant box-tomb is still to be seen south-east of the church . |
| 19 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 20 | The fruit of the little enlivening the quaint old northern town has got through the Exhibition may be seen by-and-bye . |
| 21 | Evidence of this could be seen week after week from 1989 onwards . |
| 22 | There was a crash and a scream and bizarrely against the unrelentingly cheerful music two figures could be seen fighting . |
| 23 | Besides , in a place of militant social-climbing , it does n't hurt to be seen poolside with recognisable New York artists . |
| 24 | In fact i has to be less than 90° for the simple reason that the supergiant does not eclipse the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 at any part of the orbit ; if τ were 90° the orbits would be seen edge-on and eclipsing would be unavoidable . |