Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] be seen " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And I give you my word that I will not be seen in public again with her . ’
2 We are sorry that she wo n't be seen by more but it just has not been possible .
3 A good receptionist must develop a telephone personality — remembering that you can not be seen , only heard .
4 Ali wanted us to meet here , ’ he said to Owen , ‘ so that we should not be seen by his little friends . ’
5 The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly .
6 County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket .
7 She thought it very bad for the image of women that they should always be seen as the people most likely to follow their hearts and not their heads .
8 Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality .
9 Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms .
10 They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope .
11 Of course , when it came time to write the bill , there were great problems in choosing the exact words to be employed so that it would n't be seen by anyone as a ‘ Euthanasia Bill ’ .
12 He took it by train to Devonshire and walked many miles over the moors with it so that it would not be seen near Baskerville Hall .
13 Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ .
14 It went ahead later on such a scale and at such a pace that it can now be seen as one of the most important facts of modem history .
15 The overseas economy of Kent was the most developed in early Anglo-Saxon England ; so strong is this overseas flavour of the Kentish economy and its society ; that it can almost be seen as part of the Continent rather than the rest of England at this time .
16 It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty .
17 From this distance Bourke says he was unable to contact Blake by radio and therefore he would drive to Old Oak Common Lane , park his car and then walk across Old Oak Common with his radio to a point dose to the north side of the prison from where he could re-establish contact , lying down in the grass so that he would not be seen .
18 In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema .
19 She 'd wrapped him up so well against the weather that he could hardly be seen in the middle of all his clothing .
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