Example sentences of "[prep] [be] seen [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Peter was admitted as a day case for a gastroscopy after being seen in the Outpatients Department .
2 Both needed to replace material ‘ unusable ’ after being seen by millions of viewers on their TV shows .
3 This is probably why , alongside the numerous examples of be seen to and be heard to in the affirmative , none have been found in the negative : ( 91 ) * He was n't seen to cross the street .
4 First , there is currently an unhealthy fear of being seen with anything that might be perceived as ‘ right on ’ ( the Eighties may be over , but many of its less attractive characteristics are still very much with us ) .
5 Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball .
6 These ‘ cairns ’ , as they are called , can reach enormous proportions , those on the tops of hills being capable in some instances of being seen for many miles .
7 Maybe they are fed up of being seen as this natural type of band .
8 He had the advantage of being seen as a man of peace , whereas Reagan made many voters nervous .
9 As part of their attempt to cure themselves they developed their own delusionary worlds , which were in turn often treated by non-analysts as a symptom of a disease instead of being seen as an attempt at self-cure .
10 Was it just the wine , or the heart-warming sense of being seen as a beautiful woman ?
11 We felt that a positive message delivered through TV advertising could help us regain the position of being seen as a market leader , a quality provider and a major innovator in financial services .
12 Instead of being seen as fighters on behalf of those who struggle with the system , we are seen as architects and defenders of it .
13 He collects it from the door when it arrives to spare her the embarrassment of being seen by the boy .
14 These patients can be given the option of being seen by an ENP rather than a doctor if their complaint/injury falls within agreed parameters .
15 This has placed the Institute in the position of being seen by the majority of its members and the public as inept ’ .
16 Everyone at some point has dreamed of being seen by millions and now YOU have the chance !
17 And later — much later at the National Theatre playing the young Captain Absolute — did that grow out of being seen in these performances ?
18 Well that 's got ta be seen to .
19 She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality .
20 It is clearly necessary to cater for all the languages in the group and ‘ double ’ resourcing or ‘ triple ’ or even more , has been possible for us with Nuffield Foundation funding , but it is far from being seen as an obvious need by those who hold the State sector purse strings , for example !
21 Indeed , far from being seen as the fragrant components of pot-pourri or as the aromatic base for creams and lotions , herbs were the only vegetable element of the medieval and Tudor kitchen .
22 When the CNAA consulted its related institutions and others about the future guidelines for the DipHE many of the polytechnics pointed out that the emphasis on an ‘ interlock ’ between the Diploma and degree programmes prevented the Diploma from being seen as an award in its own right , and devalued it : it appeared to be a failed degree .
23 The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context .
24 This is illustrated by the case of a girl who experienced a tremendous shock some three to four years before being seen at the homoeopathic out-patient clinic .
25 In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence .
26 But there is one more role we have to play if we are to been seen as a socially responsible company , setting standards for the industry within the society in which we operate .
27 For Modigliani it was important for his work to be seen outside France in an international setting .
28 If it is larger then spreading can cause pixels to be seen outside the permitted area , if smaller then accuracy can be lost .
29 In practice , the platform becomes a place for people who want to be seen , those who believe that their own importance is such that the presentation of the programme is secondary to their right to be seen beside the programme participants .
30 Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater .
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