Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tight to the elbows then flared out , falling nearly to her knees , allowing the embroidery inside to be seen . |
| 2 | Usually only one of the delegation addressed the assembly at large on the king 's needs , but it is hardly to be believed that the remainder were content merely to be seen . |
| 3 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 4 | Have letters large enough to be seen easily from a distance . |
| 5 | RV Tauri , the prototype star , is never bright enough to be seen with binoculars , and the only binocular representative is R Scuti , in the little constellation of the Shield . |
| 6 | The few planetaries bright enough to be seen with binoculars show up in the guise of dim , ill-defined stars . |
| 7 | Environmental evidence forms a special category of finds , and can consist of animal bones and snail shells large enough to be seen and collected by the excavators . |
| 8 | The third was tall enough to be seen from the sea , both east and west of the island . |
| 9 | At night the landscape glows a dull red , which emanates from the surface of Venus : the rocks , hotter than a domestic oven , glow just enough to be seen at night . |
| 10 | However , they are less obviously to be seen in the academic community as a whole than in the discrete disciplinary sub-cultures , where they take different forms ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 11 | This has all to be seen in the context of the profound fatalism about life itself . |
| 12 | place , on the other hand , is a determination of space as a coincidence of event and geography that is itself productive of meaning : as if a film were made only to be seen in one place , not another . |
| 13 | With modern microelectronic devices , however , automation is no longer only to be seen in factories that make identical goods in continuous streams , but is spreading to batch production . |
| 14 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 15 | ‘ To promote closer union ’ means that it is , in the Council 's judgement , an acceptable means towards fuller unity in some circumstances , and not only to be seen as an expression of full unity already achieved . |
| 16 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 17 | It contains the private Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons , only to be seen on written application . |
| 18 | But they are not only to be seen on the street but within the mind 's eye itself : the mental set has changed in the post-1960 years of unprecedented exposure to visual imagery . |
| 19 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 20 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
| 21 | Soon Jerusalem was no longer to be seen in Dorset 's green and pleasant land . |
| 22 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
| 23 | Holden and Holford 's City of London Plan put the seal on the principles of precinct planning and the canalization of traffic , crucial aspects of redevelopment which were soon to be seen in Coventry , Plymouth and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Elton , soon to be seen starring in the BBC adaptation of his novel Stark , has lined up an even more punishing schedule with 36 gigs kicking off in Worthing on October 11 . |
| 25 | The capitalist state is thus to be seen as an autonomous set of institutions , able to intervene at all levels in order to maintain the status quo . |
| 26 | In the final analysis , religion was thus to be seen as the emotionally charged product of intense social interaction ( 'collective effervescence' ) — esprit de corps elevated to the metaphysical plane . |
| 27 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 28 | Health Authority figures show some outpatients who 've been referred by their GP to an orthapedic consultant there , may have to wait more than 2 years just to be seen . |
| 29 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 30 | It was greatly taken amiss that they were not to be seen in the bombed vicinities . |