Example sentences of "[be] seen [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Long-tailed Ducks are seen at sea or on tidal waters , but one or two are recorded on inland waters almost every year . |
| 2 | We must stop these accidents happening , particularly by wearing reflective gear so we are seen at night . |
| 3 | Someone directing others needs to know the Bible as his own resource of study and meditation , to know its teaching about man 's relationship with God in covenant , encounter , incorporation , to know both its teaching on prayer and those who in its pages are seen at prayer . |
| 4 | Though these developments are seen as part of moves to reduce Macao 's dependence on gambling ( which contributes 25 per cent of government revenue ) and Hong Kong ( which provides most of its gamblers ) , they leave some residents uneasy about China 's growing involvement in the local economy . |
| 5 | Political conflicts of the sort which characterize the Northern Ireland problem are of a quite different nature because they are seen as part of a ‘ zero-sum ’ game . |
| 6 | Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series . |
| 7 | Secondly , library skills are seen as part of a group of several related skills , suggesting that library skills should not be taught in isolation from study skills , learning skills and communication skills . |
| 8 | The Christmas visits are seen as part of the long recovery process after the accident . |
| 9 | ‘ Catholic schools will only be understood when they are seen as part of the mission of the Church , ’ said Mr Helvin . |
| 10 | Child care policies are seen as part of a structure of political and economic relations in which dominant groups control subordinate and , in particular , deviant groups by a range of sanctions . |
| 11 | It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions . |
| 12 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 13 | Conservative criminology concentrates on crimes committed by those it considers members of the dangerous classes , those who are seen as part , either of the criminal underworld , or of the lumpenproletariat . |
| 14 | Drawn from a more liberal tradition , they are seen as part of the permissive professions who encourage the delinquent and the feckless . |
| 15 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 16 | In this way Christ 's suffering from sin at the Passion , and man 's penance , are seen as part of one sacramental healing process : Such perception is foregrounded again at the point when the meditator devotionally embraces the cross . |
| 17 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 18 | Buyers ' bid are passed to the auctioneer via a bank of brokers who are seen on screen along with the animals on offer . |
| 19 | By far the most detailed and satisfactory portrayals of Hercules and his wide variety of performances are seen on metalwork . |
| 20 | More are seen on spring passage , as the table shows , but passage movements are discussed under DIVER SPECIES . |
| 21 | Most are seen on autumn passage , with a marked peak in September , but spring reports have become more numerous recently and have included several April records . |
| 22 | It is difficult to imagine the mosaicist responsible for the cantharus in mosaic B working with such conventional geometries as are seen in mosaic 6 and the mosaic from insula 34 . |
| 23 | From England they go across to Brittany , where they are seen in sea cliffs and along into Normandy where they form , for example , the great escarpment at Falaise on which stands William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 24 | Homologous sequences are seen in chimpanzee , rhesus monkey , elephant , pig , dog , rabbit ( which is underloaded ) , mouse , opossum , chicken , salmon ( somewhat degraded ) , and Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 25 | Since statements are seen in part as a form of protection for the child , we must seek to ensure that all who need this protection have it . |
| 26 | When the war brought an end to Joe 's Palace career he had played 276 Southern League games for us — the highest in the club 's history , but when they are seen in context they assume even greater value , for not only were the maximum possible appearances lower than in our present day ( only one of Johnson 's seasons with us included a 42 match programme ) but goalkeepers were subject to much more physical attention than is permitted today . |
| 27 | These findings suggest that bile salts may play an important part in the control of colonic endocrine function and may explain the increased circulating concentrations of colonic regulatory peptides that are seen in malabsorption states and after small bowel resection in humans . |
| 28 | Final judgement on the others will have to be reserved until they are seen in action : initial soundings from Down Under are not unfavourable , however . |
| 29 | These senior PR personnel attend many different kinds of meetings , write new business presentations , PR proposals and reports , and usually are seen in action during crisis PR situations and when major and important high-points in a campaign are happening . |
| 30 | If any pixels are seen in the resulting region then ( a ) the reference card has moved , ( b ) the subject or other material has moved into the reference region or ( c ) one or both of the exposure and illumination is too high and spurious pixels are seen by spreading . |