Example sentences of "be seen [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 2 | His personal failure was for two reasons : firstly , that the metamorphosis from the Left-wing backbencher with a CND badge and a baggage of similar lost causes could be seen a mile off . |
| 3 | Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines . |
| 4 | The grounds of the public library at Wallington seem an unlikely setting for industrial remains , but here can be seen a preserved section of tramway used by the Surrey Iron Railway , the first tramway built as a transport system independent of canal and other industrial transport . |
| 5 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 6 | A little way up on the left hand side is the Museum Dr Frederico Freitas where can be seen a large exhibition of engravings and porcelain . |
| 7 | To the left can be seen a passing train on the Romsey to Eastleigh line . |
| 8 | In the distance can be seen a shimmering blue-green arch with tinges of pink , and beyond this a fuzzy indistinctness . |
| 9 | Amongst the more modern works on offer may be seen a rare print by Pissarro , ‘ Paysage sous bois à l'Hermitage ’ ( est. $20–30,000 ; £11,500–17,500 ) and Picasso 's ‘ Jacqueline en mariée de face I ’ ( est. $22–26,000 ; £12,750–15,000 ) . |
| 10 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |
| 11 | This lexicon should not be seen a static repository of data . |
| 12 | They wanted the police to be seen a lot more . |
| 13 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
| 14 | ‘ This levy could be seen a s a form of compulsory insurance against the need to use money advice services , ’ the NCC said . |
| 15 | In this new , or at least much heavier , emphasis on fair dealing can be seen a genuine movement away from the primitive assumptions of the age of Commynes and Machiavelli . |
| 16 | Behind him can be seen a picture of the Tibetan director . |
| 17 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 18 | Hemlines were up and tunes like the ‘ Black Bottom ’ and the ‘ Charleston ’ were part of a new sense of freedom that could be seen every night in Glasgow at over 50 ‘ Palais de Danse ’ . |
| 19 | Seb had stopped taking Gloria out and was to be seen every night with the rest of his team running in shorts and a singlet round the Greycoats ' playing field , being timed by old Plumpton . |
| 20 | Part of the Government 's failure can be seen every week in our constituency surgeries , at which small business people complain about the way in which their firms failed . |
| 21 | Then the carriage came to a curve in the track and the window could be seen no more . |
| 22 | It was a curious evening , a backward look to pieces in which could be seen the seeds of the choreographic gift that was to develop , sometimes into epic stagings , in the years ahead . |
| 23 | Beyond can be seen the outside world of ‘ Natures endless treasurie ’ , with a telescope trained on the heavens . |
| 24 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 25 | There is an inexorable logic about McCabe 's observation of the process by which the child Francie 's engaging , restless , questioning personality is gradually mutated by a brutalising absence of love or understanding or any sort of kindness , into that of a deranged adult murderer , behind whose insane and degraded behaviour , are still to be seen the vestigial lineaments of an injured child . |
| 26 | Near the top of the hill stood the large white building which was the San Martino Museum and above it , and in contrast to the museum 's firm elegant lines , could be seen the solid brown ramparts of St Elmo 's Castle . |
| 27 | Along the inferior border of the mandible may be seen the roseate shaped groups of grooves that occur when the rodent anchors its lower jaw on one side of the mandible and pivots against this with its upper jaw to produce a series of grooves converging downwards to a single point . |
| 28 | The church dates back to the 14th century , and in the grass fields to the south of Station Road can still be seen the ridge and furrow of the open field arable strips which probably originated before the charter . |
| 29 | A few miles from where the tiny ships first ‘ debouched from the Strait ’ is a spot which marks one of the suture-lines of the planet , one of those rare sites where can be seen the brushstrokes of creation . |
| 30 | These cords trail away into the distance , and there can be seen the hands of Drachenfels himself , drawing the essence out of the soul and into his own hands . |