Example sentences of "had to [be] seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balbinder had to be seen onto it , and met at the end of the day . |
| 2 | Some of Ferguson 's tries had to be seen to be believed . |
| 3 | Chirac had to be seen to be making concessions to his defeated rival Le Barre in order to get Le Barre 's support for the run-off against Mitterand . |
| 4 | Four of the relieving kicks he launched in this match had to be seen to be believed , particularly as he varied his kicking foot . |
| 5 | The square tango had to be seen to be believed — eat your hearts out , disco dancers ! |
| 6 | They had to be seen to be doing something positive , something caring . |
| 7 | The beds had to be seen to be believed . |
| 8 | ‘ It had to be seen to be believed , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But he maintained that the trust had to be seen to be separate from the health authority . |
| 10 | OSHKOSH 92 had to be seen to be believed , it was everything that any aviation enthusiast could ever hope for , a unique mix of every form of aviation on this planet , from a USAF KC–135 that performed fly-bys to the Experimental Aircraft Association 's Ryan NYP monoplane Spirit of St Louis replica , from a privately owned NDN–1T Firecracker N2157C ( owned by Richard Slaney from Eugene , Oregon ) to a 1935 built Waco YMF–5 C–GIBF , and from the latest homebuild designs to a staggering collection of warbirds . |
| 11 | More than useful at manipulating the seam , dazzling in the field — the pirouette and throw that cut down David Smith at Southend had to be seen to be believed — Mark 's elegant bat could prove as distressing for the patriot next summer as it has been enchanting for the connoisseur this . |
| 12 | The streets and public spaces had to be seen to be safe , from both criminals and demonstrates . |
| 13 | Cuba — only ninety miles from the United States — must have seemed to Khrushchev ( who had to be seen to be making progress on at least one front ) an irresistibly appropriate object for a Soviet response to US arrogance and intransigence . |
| 14 | There was a girl called Grace Rumblebow who had to be seen to be believed . |
| 15 | Another reason was that people had to be seen to be playing the management game . |
| 16 | Increased attention to secondary education meant that justice had to be seen to be done . |
| 17 | The general consensus , however , was probably that teams and committees had to be seen to be operating tough but fair standards . |
| 18 | It was always going to be a dull Budget , but the reaction at the seminar had to be seen to be believed . |
| 19 | Thrift had to be seen as a goal , not an all-pervading reality . |
| 20 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 21 | CIT 's honourary president the Princess Royal said at Light Rail 91 in Manchester that public transport had to be seen as an improvement not just as an alternative to car use . |
| 22 | To his credit , or possibly his ignorance , Michael then immediately filmed the next scene , where he had to be seen on the underside of a fire engine 's turntable ladder twenty feet up in the air , being lowered to the ground . |
| 23 | Gross national product ( GNP ) was expected to grow by about 6 per cent in 1990 but this had to be seen against a similar percentage inflation rate . |
| 24 | Mr Guest told the court that the case had to be seen against a background of 400,000 people in the United Kingdom who did not own a set but who were routinely hounded and subjected to abuse by the licensing authority . |
| 25 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 26 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 27 | A spokesman said the top salaries had to be seen in the context of the company 's performance last year and its importance as a global business . |
| 28 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 29 | He had to be seen in Frank Spencer 's latest job , as a window-cleaner 's assistant , in a cradle on the side of an office building . |
| 30 | However , if the patient required an X-ray he or she had to be seen by one of the consultants or registrars . |