Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel 's second argument was that all the evidence presented to the court was that the defendant had been seen engaging in actual violence , but not threatening it , as the section requires , On this submission the Court concluded that there was sufficient evidence in the narrative presented to the jury from which they were entitled to conclude that there was threatening behaviour . |
| 2 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 3 | Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth . |
| 4 | With a round of state elections taking place on Nov. 8 , Salinas 's apparent acknowledgement of the electoral fraud issue stimulated rather than placated opposition protests ( as had been the case on those recent occasions when Salinas had been seen to intervene to remove victorious PRI candidates accused of gross electoral fraud — see pp. 38385 ; 38524 ; 38716 ; 38905 ; 39136 ) . |
| 5 | Happily Herbert had eventually trotted off and to Amy 's distress had been seen no more , although his lead still hung on the caravan door , a limp reminder of her bereavement . |
| 6 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 7 | And at the National Enquirer in the US , the paper which broke the story and published artist 's impressions of the pictures , insiders said the pictures had been seen by at least one member of staff . |
| 8 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 9 | The range and technological sophistication of the aircraft had been seen as necessary to penetrate advanced Soviet air defences , but were of less value against less advanced military opponents . |
| 10 | The first chiff-chaff had shown up exceptionally early in 1970 , he saw ; the last kingcup had been seen in 1967 . |
| 11 | Nothing like their earthworks had been seen since the earlier Iron Age of pre-Roman times . |
| 12 | A correspondent of the Federal Government 's News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) reported that the Benin flag had been seen flying at places within Nigeria and beyond the recognised border . |
| 13 | Formerly , socialization had been seen as a kind of ‘ clay moulding ’ . |
| 14 | It was allegedly from a woman called Sandra with whom Gilfoyle had been seen . |
| 15 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 16 | Mrs Meikle said just two days ago Graham had been seen in a local pub . |
| 17 | An extensive Cabinet reshuffle on Feb. 19 involved some 20 changes and numerous new appointments , and included the transfer of the Foreign Affairs Minister Habib Boulares , regarded as the most pro-Iraqi member of the government , to Defence ; the departure from the Cabinet of Hamouda Ben Slama , who as Minister of Youth and Sports had been seen as having an " affinity " with Islamists ; and the appointment of Habib Ben Yahia , a US-educated career diplomat and former ambassador to the UN , to take over Foreign Affairs . |
| 18 | Studies on the options are still going on , and the Government 's decision to increase BR 's profit targets had been seen as part of the ‘ fattening-up ’ process . |
| 19 | Studies on the options are still going on , and the Government 's decision to increase BR 's profit targets had been seen as part of the ‘ fattening-up ’ process . |
| 20 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 21 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 22 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 23 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 24 | The first round of voting last week had been seen as a referendum on a UN-backed ‘ set of ideas ’ to end the division of the island with the creation of a federal state comprising Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones . |
| 25 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 26 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 27 | Mr Wood said he had gone to investigate after people had been seen in the area with bull terriers , the dogs most commonly used for fighting badgers . |
| 28 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 29 | In August 1981 every piece of the city 's urban common carried a population of wall butterflies ( Lasiommosta megera ) , the first time this species had been seen north of the Tyne this century . |
| 30 | Nothing on a similar scale had been seen since 1911 . |